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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... people's help. First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to my advisor DaeSook Suh. I owe him an immeasurable intellectual debt for his help to my master and doctoral studiesatthe University of Hawaii forsix years. My ...
... Korean leadersaspaceto seek anindependent national identity. Anotherevent that facilitated the growthofKorean nationalism was theendof Korean monarchy after the1910 colonization. Traditionally, the object of people's loyalty had beenthe ...
... Korean people faithfully inherit the patriotic spirit of revolution which Mt Paekdu symbolizes, and which are correctlycarried on by KimJong Ilatthehead of the people. Kim JongIl lives with this spiritof Mt Paekdu andis walkingthe road ...
... Korean Communist Party merged with the New Democratic Party to become the North Korean Workers' Party. IntheSouth ... People's Army,which officially came into effect in April 1948. The army proved tobe the primary stronghold of Kim's ...
... people under the people's regimewere organizedintothese groups. The people's revolutionary regime implemented a varietyofnew policies such as land reforms, eighthour limits ondaily labor,free education, malefemale equality,andsoon. The ...