North Korea under Kim Jong Il

From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvSung Chull Kim

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Examines internal changes in North Korea under the expanding rule of Kim Jong Il.North Korea has long been a country of mystique, both provoking two nuclear crises and receiving aid from the international community and South Korea in more recent times. North Korea under Kim Jong Il examines how internal changes in North Korea since the early 1970s have structured that nation's apparently provocative nuclear diplomacy and recent economic reform measures. To understand these changes, author Sung Chull Kim uncovers relatively unknown internal aspects of the country under Kim Jong Il's leadership. His account, based on a thorough examination of primary sources, traces the origins, consolidation, and dissonance of North Korea's systemic identity. He reveals how official and unofficial developments in the domains of North Korea's politics, ideology, economics, and intellectual-cultural affairs have brought about system-wide duality, particularly between socialist principles embedded in the official ideology and economic institutions.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-10-05
Mått162 x 231 x 24 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor292
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791469279

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Tables and FiguresAbbreviationsNote on Romanization Preface 1. Introduction: A Conceptual Frame for Systemic ChangesEmergence of the Systemic Identity of North KoreaEmbodiment of the System: Functional DifferentiationSystemic Dissonance and Major ConjuncturesRequirement for Systemic Viability: OpennessTour of the Book 2. Kim Jong Il: The Political Man and His Leadership CharacterThe Shaping of a Political PersonalityThe Political Man's Road to SuccessionActive-Negative Leadership CharacterImplications for Systemic Changes 3. The Party's Strengthening Discipline and Weakening EfficiencyKim Il Sung's Legacy: From a Mass Party to an Institutionalized PartyKim Jong Il and Organizational ChangesParty-Life Criticism as a Disciplinary InstrumentThe Declining Efficiency of the PartyDual Implications 4. Military-First Politics and Changes in Party-Military RelationsPower Dynamics and Party-Military RelationsMilitary-First Politics under Kim Jong IlInstitutional Differentiation between the Party and the MilitaryRelevance to Kim Jong Il's Management Style5. Chuch'e in TransformationChuch'e and Power SuccessionSocialism in Historical DevelopmentEstrangement from Marxism-LeninismOn Capitalism and Opening UpReflections on Chuch'e: With Special Reference to Systemic Identity 6. The Fluctuation of Economic Institutions and the Emergence of EntrepreneurshipInstitutions of Economic Management: Traditions and Their DislocationIncreased Local LatitudeThe Emergence of Private EntrepreneursInformal Transition of Property RightsImplications for Systemic Dissonance 7. The Changing Roles of IntellectualsSocialist Transformation and Persecution of IntellectualsSocialist Mobilization and Changes in the Class Status of IntellectualsKim Jong Il's Rise and His Mobilization of IntellectualsThe Perceived "Internal Enemy" in Times of Decaying SocialismFacilitation of the "Skip-Over Strategy" 8. Conclusion: Dilemmas of Opening UpSpecial Features of Systemic DissonanceDefiance in 2002 AppendixNotesBibligraphyIndex