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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... Kim 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 ...
Jae-Cheon Lim. he become the successor to Kim Il Sung? What did Kim Jong Il do after he was appointed the heir to his ... Sung's works, newspapers, journals, and other materials. In this category,Kim Chŏngil.
... Sung's nationalist reaction to foreign intervention. 14 Although Kim Il Sung hated to use the term nationalist, his political career demonstrates the extent of his nationalist sentiments. Kim Il Sung'sfather's nationalism influencedhis ...
... Kim Il Sung tothe present. Inthis chapter,I will examine the significance ofKim IlSung's death, what Kim Jong Il has accomplished in the postKim Il Sung period, how Kim Jong Il's policies differ from his father's, how Kim coped with the ...
Jae-Cheon Lim. born in 1942. Concerning Kim Jong Il's birthplace, there are three different views. The first one argues that Kim ... Sung's memoirs, to avoid an attackbythe Japaneseexpeditionary forces hunting down Kim IlSungand his guerrilla ...