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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... ideological indoctrination is also instrumental in the totalitarian realm, where only oneideology isallowedto exist. Thisideology is repeatedly inculcated through thestate's education systemand media. Throughideological indoctrination ...
... ideological rigidity andpragmatism are not mutually exclusive.Ina sense, thetwo contradictoryfeatures coexist under his effortstosustain political power. Before thelate1990s, loyalty to his fatherwas themain characteristic of Kim Jong ...
... ideology during the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910). InChosŏn Korea, Confucianism not only secured thecontrol of the ruling yangban class, but also affected,asthe statereligion, thedaily life of commonersbyregulating people'scustoms ...
... ideology ofthe North.Inasense, the chuch′eideais a product ofKimIl 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 ...
... ideology appeared inevery stage of his life.Hislife's foremostgoal wasnational liberationand the unificationofthe Korean Peninsula. Nationalists, his fatherand his father's friends, influenced him.Oneofthe importantfigures who ...