Sung Chull Kim is Associate Professor of Northeast Asian Studies at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Japan.

• 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

Sung Chull Kim is Associate Professor of Northeast Asian Studies at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Japan.

• 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

Sung Chull Kim is Associate Professor of Northeast Asian Studies at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Japan.

• 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