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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... of the chuch'eidea inNorth Korean society.He has been one of the foremost architects of the transformation ofthe totalitarian state. Another general characteristic of politicians is that once they seize politicalpower, they want ...
... of the two Koreas. Theircolonial anddivision experiences heightened the twoKoreas' suspicionsof the neighboring powers ... ofthe North.Inasense, the chuch′eideais a product ofKimIl Sung's nationalist reaction to foreign intervention. 14 ...
... ofthe Soviet Politburo,in Moscowinsummer 1945 beforetheSoviet forces had entered thewar against Japan. 35 Korea wasliberated on 15 August 1945 and was divided into two Koreas.Whilethe Soviet forcesoccupied theNorth, theUS possessedthe ...
... ofthe Korean Communist Party, theNew Democratic Party,andthe People' s Partyin November 1946. Kim was elected as chairman of the Korean Workers'Party inJune 1949 when the North Korean Workers' Party and the South Korean Workers' Party ...
... of the campaigns. Kim's chuch'e ideais essentiallyan extreme version of nationalism. From the mid1950s, when the SinoSoviet disputes began, Kim developed the concept asa politicaldoctrine. The nationalist characteristics ofthe chuch'e ...