A picture that North Koreans were not to see

Eternal president Kim Il Sung was a cruel dictator, who ruled the ''Democratic'' People's Republic of Korea from 1948 till his death in 1994. As a classic Stalinist dictator he created a cult of personality around him. This cult is still alive in today's North Korea, although Kim Il Sung is no longer the only god. He maybe eternal president but his son Kim Jong Il, has been promoted to godhood after his own death in December 2011. Now both father and son are the center of the North Korean religion, which idolized these two criminals. In his last years however, Kim Il Sung grew a tumor ( calcium deposit ). Not a dangerous tumor but it grew just behind his neck. North Korean photographers were forbidden to take a picture with his tumor present. This proofed to be difficult in the last years before Kim Il Sung's death, as his tumor grew into the size of a tennis ball. 

In his last years, president Kim Il Sung developed a tumor 

This was not to be showed to the North Korean public and

few people inside the Stalinist monarchy would have known about it!