[학술논문] Changes in North Korea’s Elite Structure: A Comparison with the Soviet Union
This paper has a purpose to examine the nature of the North Korean ruling class and to discuss its relevance to maintenance of regime drawing up the Korean peninsula's future. In soviet communism nepotism and patron-client relations undermined the political criteria of elite recruitment in the Nomenklatura system. The political elite began to degenerate into a social class, perhaps one of the most