"Some 20,000 people died in the resulting campaign of torture and murder, but it was not just repression pure and simple. What the villagers grew to fear most was the dreadful all-night singing sessions in which they would have to sing ZANU songs with cheerful enthusiasm at the same time that they were savagely beaten; when they would not only have to watch as friends or family members were tortured or shot but would themselves have to assist in the process -- the emphasis always being on achieving their utter humiliation and incrimination so that they could re-emerge at the end as Mugabe loyalists."
This massacre is known as "The Gukurahundi", a name given to the operation by Mugabe. A gukurahundi is the spring rain that washes away the chaff. This nicely discloses Mugabe's attitude toward the Ndebele people of Matabeleland and Masvinga who were the targets of the massacre.
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Man O Man.
So while North Koreans are encouraged to believe that Kim Il Sung still rules and watches over the country, it seems likely that the great man's end was more like the usual tyrant's exit.
This is the first time I've heard this.