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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... mass starvation of 1995–1998. Many people wondered howlong Kim Jong Il could maintain the regime and whether a coupagainst the newtotalitarian leader might soon result fromhis instatement. However,contrary to expectations, Kim JongIl ...
... masses to actualize the realities that might exist in the fiiture.9 Theroleofa totalitarianleader isvitalina ... mass media, become 'transmission belts'andexist forthe realization of the 'will of the Leader'. In principle,they ...
... Mass Meetingof Welcome'. Inhis memoirs, Kim described the day as the 'happiest moment inhislife'. 36 Afterreturning toKorea withno political base,Kim Il Sung began to accumulate powerunder thetutelage ofthe Soviet occupation forces. The ...
... Mass Meetingof Welcome' on 14 October 1945, heemphasized thatallthe people should participateinbuilding anindependent democratic state as a way of letting 'those withstrength givestrength; letting those with knowledge give knowledge ...
... mass partywith broad popular bases. 56 Hǒwas oustedfrom his position inlate 1951. In the dispute concerning the party line, Kim ultimatelysupported a Chinesestyle mass party, ratherthan the Leninist one,thathe had beena member ofduring ...