[학술논문] 金正恩의 권력세습은 아직 未完成이다
...charisma of his own, Kim Jong Un has no record of past achievements except that he used to play a king pin as a tot. For these and other reasons, we may have the need to revisit some of the cases of failed attempts of hereditary succession of power in past dynasties in Asia if we were to be foresighted enough to be able to do some fortune telling about the fate of Kim Jong Un’s North Korea.
[학술논문] North Korea after Kim Jong-il
...the Supreme People’s Assembly had also Kim Jong-un as the first chairman of the Defense Committee, the most powerful organ in North Korea. Thus, Kim Jong-un looked as if he finalized hereditary succession of three generations. After Kim Jong-il’s sudden death in December 2012, Kim Jong-un has been heavily dependent upon his families and the second and the third generation revolutionaries...
[학술논문] 북한 인권 문제 해결의 王道는 북한의 自由化다
...as a means to prolong its repressive regime further at the expense of rights and freedoms of the people. With North Korea now clearly in a state of limbo going through yet another round of hereditary succession of power, the third of its kind, it is perhaps time now to consider revisiting, for its application to North Korea, the ‘crusade’ that U.S. President Ronald Reagan mobilized against...
[학술논문] The North Korean Patrimonial Elite
... The paper considers the emergence of the patrimonial elite as an outcome of North Korea’s policies prioritizing allegiance to the ruler. The rise of the elite has been driven by the two main political factors: Kim Il-sung’s political need for a new group of loyal elites during his power struggles against political adversaries and North Korea’s pattern of hereditary succession.
[학위논문] 북한 김정일 체제의 군사정책 연구 : 1995~2005 : 군사정책 결정요인과 집행수단 분석
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As a part of the Chosun Labor Party's platforms, accordingly, North Korea's military policies including nuclear issues have been used not only in sustaining Kim's hereditary power and the socialist system internally, but also externally in pursuing political and economic interests and guaranteeing the regime security by employing threats and negotiations alternately...