[해외자료] Assessing North Korea’s Wage Reform: 18 Months Later, Has it Improved Lives or Reinforced State Control?

Eighteen months have passed since North Korea implemented atenfold wage increase( Cabinet Decision No. 23101-9, October 2023). This landmark decision—coming after 21 years of stagnant and extremely low wages—raises an important question: how has it affected people’s daily...

[현안분석] Marketization Trends in North Korea

Marketization in North Korea officially began with the July 1 measures in 2002. Since then, three thousands markets have been set up nationwide according to the cabinet instructions on market operation and management. In order to encourage market activities, the authorities liberalized market prices, allowed more freedom in the field of distribution, guaranteed commodities imports, and levied taxes...

[학위논문] 김정일 시대의 핵심엘리트 연구 : 충원과 인적구성을 중심으로

...the Politburo and Secretariat have been reduced, the expertised departments and the cabinet have functioned more. In the era of Kim Il Sung, the Politburo usually took responsibilities in policy-making, and the Secretariat monitored how the policies were carried out. However, the expertised departments and the cabinet relatively play more active roles in the era of Kim Jong Il. While twenty three elites...

[학위논문] 中國과 北韓의 軍事思想과 黨·軍 關係 比較 硏究 : 黨의 軍事指導思想과 領軍體系를 中心으로

...under the command of KPA Headquarter. During the wartime, Supreme Command executed the Korean War under the guidance of Kim IlSung(Chairman of Central Committee, Supreme Commander, and Speaker of Cabinet). Second, ‘Making "oneman rule" system(1954 ~ 1972)’ is a period in which Kim IlSung’s one man ruling system was formed. During this period, North Korea...

[학위논문] 북한의 선군노선과 권위구축동학 : 정치적 계승의 위기를 중심으로

...accompanied changes in organization and policy. The organizational changes included the advent of the National Defense Commission system and North Korean-style divisibility of politics and economy by Cabinet Responsibility System, while the policy changes was made up of the withdrawal of Revolutionary Economic Strategy, the revival of the priority development of heavy Industry policy for Self-Reliance...

[학위논문] 북한 권력구조 변화에 대한 비교체제론적 연구 : 북한과 중국의 헌법 및 공산당 비교

...People’s Republic of Korea does not have people in it”. It is only Kim Il Sung’s family and the Korean Worker’s Party, worshipped by the North Korean People’s Army, cabinet and etc. What allows this old-fashioned strict binary master-servant relationship issue to be possible can be organized as the following. The fact that Kim Il Sung’s family as...