Tell me about Kim Il Sung's North Korea. How was North Korea

It was doing "ok" while the soviet union was still around. Also no one would ever have an image of him facing that direction because of the massive calcinosis on the

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>>3274124
Compared with the current North korean situation I think was fine for soviet standards.

>>3274124
When the propaganda wasn't a meme

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>>3274124
The north had the bulk of Korea's industry under Japan, so in the immediate period after the war, they were considered better off than the agrarian south
furthermore, third world socialists were quite successful when it came to expanding education/literacy, land/wealth distribution, and healthcare to a large section of the population (who really had nowhere to go but up)

so the DPRK was comparable to other commie countries in most socioeconomic terms, including the stagnation over time
a major difference was the regime's dynastic, very Stalinist character (though isolated/unique enough [muh Juche] that allowed them to side-step the inter-commie splits that occurred in the '60s)

things went to shit after Kim I cause
>USSR collapsed, China more interested in engaging with global economy
>massive famine in the '90s which reeaaally fsu
>Kim II gets paranoid about DPRK's international isolation, the fact the US is the sole superpower, and starts making the military the #1 priority despite the fact the country is still reeling from said famine and poverty is widespread

from what I understand, Kim Il-sung was actually a competent leader and something of an intellectual, who actually had to fight for power; and Kim Jong-il was the spoiled kid who imported Hennessy and partied well into adulthood