Kim Jong-il's Leadership of North KoreaRoutledge, 2008年11月24日 - 240 頁 Kim Jong Il came to power after the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994. Contrary to expectations, he has succeeded in maintaining enough political stability to remain in power. Kim Jong Il's Leadership of North Korea is an examination of how political power has been developed, transmitted from father to son, and now operates in North Korea Using a variety of original North Korean sources as well as South Korean materials Jae-Cheon Lim pieces together the ostensibly contradictory and inconsistent facts into a conceptual coherent framework. This book considers Kim and his leadership through an analytical framework. composed of four main elements: i) Kim as a leader of a totalitarian society; ii) as a politician; iii) as a Korean; and iv) as an individual person. This illuminating account of what constitutes power and how it is used makes an important contribution to the understanding of an opaque and difficult regime. It will be of interest for upper level undergraduate, postgraduates and academics interested in North Korean politics, and also those in Political theory. |
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... Il Sung in 1994, his son, Kim Jong Il, began to rule the state. He was little known totheoutsideworld at the time. Experts on North Korea wonderedwhetherKimhad the same power base and personal capacity to govern the state as his father ...
... Il will provide an answer tothe following question: Why, unlike theSoviet Union and other East Europeancountries, did ... Il's leadership, this book answersthe followingquestions: Howwashe raisedand educated?How did he become the ...
... Kim JongIl's publicand private lives. The second informationcategory comes from North Korean publications such asKim Jong Il's works, Kim Il Sung's works, newspapers, journals, and other materials. In this category,Kim Chŏngil.
... Il Selected Works) is the most important source. These workshave been distributed in North Korea since1992.The speechesin Kim Jong Il's Selected Works werepublished afterhisstaff revised the original transcripts. Inspiteofthese ...
... Il's rational choices to maintain his regime—one which has suffered from an inefficient economy and external security threat. Another of the politician's features ishisability to beflexible. Even themost dogmaticpolitician is ...