Is Kim Il Sung the object of the greatest personality cult in human history? Certainly, history has seen its fair share of remarkable personality cults: Take Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Ceaușescu, or Turkmenistan’s Saparmurat Niyazov. Turn back the clock and you could throw in Augustus Caesar, the Pharaohs of Egypt, Louis XIV. Still, Kim Il Sung stands above the rest, when you consider population, duration, and intensity.