Kim Il-sung rebelled against Japan's rule of Korea in the 1930s, which led to his exile in the Soviet Union. Korea was divided after Japan's defeat in World War II. Kim Il-sung was known as the Great Leader, and his eldest son and successor, Kim Jong-il, became known as the Dear Leader and later the Great General.Kim developed the policy and ideology of Juche in opposition to the idea of North Korea as a satellite state of China or the Soviet Union.Kim came to lead the Provisional People's Committee for North Korea (Soviet-backed North Korea's provisional government), becoming the first premier of its new government, the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" (commonly known as North Korea), in 1948.
During the 18th Century the catholic missionaries on the soil of Mexico and mostly California were massively converting Natives into Catholicism. According to testimonies these was usually followed by various oppression and abuses.