[학술논문] Survivalist North Korea’s Selective Tourism Development: Kim Jong Un’s Leadership Legitimacy

...with its key patron in times of growing economic and geopolitical uncertainty; internally, it acted as a legitimacy-enhancing mechanism for the young hereditary successor (by way of particularistic narratives and performance rationales), as tourism development is linked to legacy politics and the long-term leadership desire to build a North Korean-style modern and cultured socialist civilization.

[학위논문] 북한의 선전선동 연구 : 구호 변화(1948-2021)를 중심으로

.../ the regime faces difficult situations or needs political stability. Second, as the time for a leadership handover approaches, characteristics that will emerge in the next era are sensed in advance. Third, changes in the position and strategy of the North Korean leadership reflecting changes in the international environment are clearly seen. Fourth, foreign relations and...

[학위논문] 중국과 북한의 사회분화와 정치변동에 관한 비교연구 : 사회통제와 유교적 가치의 역할을 중심으로

... "Three-Representative" system to reinforce the Party’s leadership and safety of the socialist regime. Accordingly, the complementary role of Confucian values in relation to the socialist dominant ideology will be strengthened as time goes by. Thus, to consolidate the legitimacy of the socialist regime, the political power will be decentralized to a certain extent, although fundamental...