The supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il is a cruel leader. He rules his county with an iron fist. The prisons are full of political opponents. Its people are isolated from the rest of the world. While his people starve, his army is well fed. Religious activities are almost non-existent. To give the illusion of religious freedom, religious activities linked to the government exist.3 Machiavelli ignores that men aspire to be free. The United States was founded on this principle. America was a colony of Great Britain. In 1776, the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and delegated to Thomas Jefferson the task of drafting a declaration of independence from Great Britain. Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, which are among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." He then lists the colonists' grievances against the King of England. Among these grievances were being taxed without their consent, leaving a standing army in peacetime, abolishing their laws, and suspending our own legislatures. The United States gained its independence from the tyranny of the Greats