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In the Korean context, surveys have been done of defectors (for the obvious reasons) to try to gauge the current level of support for the regime. The result is sadly predictable for anyone who's seen Russians nostalgic for Stalin or Chinese wistfully thinking back to Mao: Il-Sung is still venerated by many North Koreans, even if they don't like his son or despise the pig-grandson.
Some survey data is summarized in The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom and "An Assessment of the North Korean System's Durability" is an extensive discussion of defector surveys. (Apparently in the 2002 defector survey, 67% of them believed their countrymen venerated Il-Sung as the "greatest mind of humanity". Many interesting bits, like "Few North Koreans seem aware that the United States has been one of North Korea's principal food donors.")
From a new paper, "Preparing for the Possibility of a North Korean Collapse", Bennett 2013 (RAND):
And that's just for defectors, which must be a selection effect in favour of being against Il-Sung.
Note that the survey says that they believe that their [i]countrymen[/i] venerated Il-Sung. Defectors may be likely to dislike Il Sung themselves, but my (low certainty) expectation would be that they'd be more likely to see the population at large as slavishly devoted. People who take an unusual stance in a society are quite likely to caricature everyone else's position and increase the contrast with their own. Mind you, they sometimes take the 'silent majority' thing of believing everyone secretly agrees with them: I don't know which would be more likely here.
But I'd guess that defectors would be both be more likely to think everyone else is zealously loyal, AND be more likely to believe that everyone wishes they could overthrow the government. I'd imagine them to be more likely to end up on the extremes, in short.