[학술논문] Hedging Opportunities and Crises against Pyongyang’s Hereditary Succession: A Chinese Perspective
Beijing passively supports Kim Jong-il’s succession plan. This support has been structured into its DPRK policy centered on the principles of crisis aversion, even though it realizes the high costs of this policy: huge economic aid to an unpredictable neighbor and the negative regional response. This status quo-based policy symbolizes not only Beijing’s lingering “buffer zone”...
[학술논문] Political Dynamics of Hereditary Succession in North Korea
This paper analyzes the background, problems and political dynamics related to the hereditary succession currently underway in North Korea. The succession to Kim Jong-un has been prepared amid relatively challenging internal and external conditions. The consolidation of Kim Jong-un’s power should solve three political challenges. The first is to inherit and repackage Kim Jong-il’s power...
[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...