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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Kim Jong-il"”.
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Inside the red box: North Korea's post-totalitarian politcs
… new understanding of North Korean politics under Kim Jong Il and carefully tests this theoretical proposition. Current models describe North Korea as some form of a highly centralized state: totalitarian, personalistic, or corporatist. By contrast, I argue that these monolithic ideal types fail to …
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Deconstructing Kimilsungism: A Political and Ideological Analysis of the North Korean Regime
… fascism, and Nazism; and shares at least some similarities with all these established models. Rather than being a mere political model, the North Korean model is a political religion that incorporates traits of each of the above-noted models with Korean mythology, Confucianism, extreme militarism, …
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The Sword and the Shield: Active and Passive Defense Against North Korean Nbc and Ballistic Missile Weapons
… South Korea and the United States. The highly militaries and ideological culture based on Juche philosophy has allowed Kim Jong Il to entrench himself firmly in the preeminent position of power in North Korea. To achieve the DPRK’s goals of reunification and maintenance of the regime, North …
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North Korea: Transport and Logistics Scenarios and South Korean Enterprises' Location Decisions
… from Chinese companies, South Korean investors will probably be the only companies to invest heavily in the North, driven by political and economic motivations. The objectives of this study are four-fold. Firstly, it analyses the political and economic factors affecting North Korea. Secondly, it …
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Creating the Leader-centred Modernity: the birth of the successor in North Korea
… collapse of the Soviet Union and the general disillusionment with socialist ideals, I examine how North Korea self-consciously bypassed the transience of the charisma of the leader predicted by Max Weber. Opposing the common view that academics in North Korea are hermetically sealed off from …
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North Korea's Nuclear Doctrine and U.S. Tailored Deterrence
U.S. deterrence capabilities on the Korean Peninsula function as the main component to ensuring the safety of American allies and preventing a cascade of nuclear proliferation in Northeast Asia. However, since North Korea's 2006 nuclear test, the American security commitment on the Korean Peninsula …