[학술논문] Kim Jong Un’s First 500 Days: Consolidating Power and Clearing Political Space for National Revival
...preserve and modernize the Kim monarchy. The article will also discuss how the regime seeks to strengthen the socialist party-state, reinvigorate the party’s central leadership institutions, tighten the party’s control over mass public organizations, and watchfully manage the party’s center-periphery relations. Part three analyzes the main drivers and direction behind Kim Jong Un’s...
[학술논문] Long-Stalled Six-Party Talks on North Korea’s Nuclear Program: Positions of Countries Involved
...since the last meeting held in December 2008. Given Pyongyang’s intense brinkmanship under Kim Jong Un since 2012, the positions of each SPT party toward North Korea and the SPT itself deserve some analysis. Interestingly, between 2012 and 2013 leadership changes or re-election occurred in all the countries involved in the SPT. Having reviewed this positions of Washington, Beijing, Tokyo, Moscow...
[학술논문] 한국전쟁 전후 북한 김두봉의 정치노선과 위상 변화 ― 최고인민회의 상임위원회의 활동을 중심으로 ―
.... Kim Doo-bong has strived to maintain the constitutional power even in trouble with the leadership of the Korean Worker’s party though he belonged to the political committee. Particularly his efforts seemed to be supported by post-stalin soviet leadership. But, ultimately, his effort to maintain the political framework of people democracy constitution has failed in the aftermath of political...
[학술논문] Security Agencies of North Korea under the Kim Jong Un Regime
...and suggest its future outlookunder the new leadership of Kim Jong Un. This study found that there are twomajor security agencies in North Korea: First, the Guard Command that protectsthe surroundings of the Chairman of the National Defense Commission (KimJong Un), and protects North Korean key figures, and state guests; and Second,Division 6 of the Party Central Committee provides close protection...
[학술논문] 1945~1948년 북한 소비조합 정책의 전개
...that came directly from colonial days. Changes in political and economic conditions since the liberation also enabled new entities like the consumer cooperatives to enter the market. North Korean leadership may have blindly adopted the Soviet model out of an ideological initiative, but under the handling of the North Korean Socialists, they were bound to evolve, or, of course, not. The North Korean...