No such reverence is ever displayed on behalf of Kim, especially following the famine of the mid-1990s, which was blamed erroneously by many North Koreans solely on his leadership, rather than the unworkable economic infrastructure foisted upon the North by the "great leader, " Kim Il-Sung.
As a result of the crises and especially the corruption scandal, Kim Young Sam was left severely weakened and proved incapable of delivering serious reform.