1. Dictators and democracy Lesson objectives Look at and assess different forms of government looking in depth at a case study of a dictator.

2. orange - parliamentary republics green - presidential republics, executive presidency linked to a parliament yellow - presidential republics, semi-presidential system blue - presidential republics, full presidential system red - parliamentary constitutional monarchies in which the monarch does not personally exercise power magenta - constitutional monarchies in which the monarch personally exercises power, often (but not always) alongside a weak parliament purple - absolute monarchies brown - republics where the dominant role of a single party is codified in the constitution

3. North Korea : Case study Debate Do you think that this video clip shows a realistic image of life in North Korea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VzDqb MUlrUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VzDqb MUlrU

4. Government type: Communist state one-man dictatorship

5. Redefining the term rogue state through its isolationism, controversial nuclear weapons programme and missile testing, North Korea is probably the most mysterious country in the world today

6. Kim Il Sung, may have died in 1994, but he is still the president of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the name locals prefer for their country). His son, a man who has only ever uttered one sentence in public (it was ‘Long Live the Victorious Korean People’s Army’ at a rally in Pyongyang in the early 1990s), continues to rule like a medieval monarch, an unknown quantity with nuclear weapons and a huge army at his beck and call, giving sleepless nights to governments in Seoul, Tokyo and Washington.

7. How has having a dictator had a positive or negative effect on North Korea?