[정치/군사] The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea

...jaw-dropping account of the spectacular rise of Kim Yo Jong, de-facto deputy to her brother, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, and the most powerful woman in North Korea. In 2022, in a particularly fiery speech, Kim Yo Jong threatened to nuke South Korea, reminding the world of the dangers posed by her state. But how did the youngest daughter of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, his ‘sweet princess’, become the ruthless...

[학술논문] 1950, 60년대 북한미술과 정현웅

...socialist art structure of North Korea in the 1950s~60s. The development of the post-war North Korean art can be considered a process of constructing a socialist national culture. The art policy of the Kim Il-Sung regime branched out in two directions, namely, “preservation of cultural heritage” and “succession and development in the area of creation.” The former includes the museum policies, the preservation...

[학술논문] North Korean Research Institutes for Plant Resourcesand the Actual Conditions of Their Agricultural Usage

...Technology (CIAST) has built up a database system integrating all the science technology data to provide scientific and technological information. The major universities of North Korea include Kim Il-sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Pyongyang Agricultural College, and Wonsan Agricultural College, and an agricultural college is situated in each province. Out of 3,860 plant species in North...

[학술논문] Sport Policy in North Korea: Regime-Specific Trajectories and Challenges

...of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un, with a focus on both regime-specific characteristics and structural challenges. METHOD Qualitative content analysis was applied as a research method, and after collecting and reviewing related literature and previous studies, the main concepts and contexts were coded and the characteristics of each regime were derived. RESULT Under the Kim Il Sung regime...

[학술논문] 『세기와 더불어』에 서술된 북한 민족해방운동사 인식의 변화상과 함의

...this way, Kim Il Song’s memoir With The Century has many important meanings. From the this book, there is possible of having different interpretaions on various version. This book can cause basis on flexible action for changing of North Korae if it sounds paradoxical. In other words, awareness of history restricted by the Juche ideology can makes new representation by authority on Kim Il Song. With...

[학술논문] 냉전기 북한 사회에 대한 새로운 인상 - Andre Schmid, 2024 North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965 (University of California Press)

[해외] Is Kim Jong Un Headed for “DPRK President” Title?

...whether Kim Jong Un will gain an additional state title: “DPRK president [주석; chusok],” the top leadership role held by his grandfather Kim Il Sung. Since September 2024, North Korea has referred to Kim Jong Un as the “head of state [국가수반; kukka suban]”—exactly mirroring the role of “DPRK president” stipulated in the 1972 and 1992 constitutions. Given North Korea’s calibrated approach to the Kim leader’s...

[국내] Politico-Military;Repercussions of North Korean Crisis

...one needs to think about how Kim Jong-il's monolithic system or Kim Jong-un's succession system collapsed. The reason is, the hereditary succession from Kim Il-sung to Kim Jong-il to Kim Jong-un can be likened to a monolithic theocratic dictatorship. If a Kim Jong-il−Kim Jong-un system broke down in a situation where no individual or group could possibly replace the Kim family rule, there must have...

[국내] 김정은정권 구축과정과 향후 관심 포인트

...steadily strengthened Kim Jong-un's monolithic leadership system for 10 years under Kim Jong-un. The direction was to establish a party-centered leadership system. In terms of governing ideology, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il have gradually upgraded the status of the people-first politics while sticking to leadership ideology, and there is a possibility that they will advocate Kim Jong-unism in the not-too-distant...

[국내] 북한의 「개정 당규약」 분석과 시사점

...the founding meeting of the Workers' Party of North Korea in 1946 and the 3rd revision since the Kim Jong-un era. Therefore, we can evaluate the Revised Party Rules as “Kim Jong-un Party Rules”, which presents the Workers' Party in the Kim Jong-un era in earnest beyond the Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il eras. In addition, the “Revised Party Rules” amended and supplemented more than half of the previous...

[국내] 최근 북한 노동당의 변화와 당 규약 개정

...of the Kim Jong-un regime inheriting some of the legacy of his predecessors, the 8th Party Congress is expected to break away from the legacy of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, declare the Kim Jong-un era and revise various organizations, systems and party regulations. The newly revised party bylaw is expected to actively reflect the changes of the time. It is also expected to strengthen Kim Jong Un's...