cult of personality in north korea
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Cult of personality in North Korea and other authoritarian systems.
Simple comparative study caseMagdalena Zofia Przygonska2013104561 정치외교학과
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USSR, Yugoslavia, Albania, China, North Korea, North Vietnam and Cuba
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Functions of communist leader cult:
1) Legitimization of the power of the small ruling group around the leaders,
2) A mechanism to manage and defuse the potentially explosive conflicts within the governing stratum itself,
3) A way to manage relations between the ruling elites and the wider society.
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BUT
North Korea’s personality cult is new, unique, and peculiar in:
a) scope, b) intensity, c) duration.
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The cult of Kim goes beyond Kim Il-sung himself
• Kim Il-sung is a father of the nation, • his father (Kim Hyong-jik) was the devout Communist, • his mother (Kang Ban-suk) was the mother of Korea, • his deceased wife (Kim Chong-suk) was the mother of
revolution• and his deceased brother (Kim Chol-ju) was the
revolutionary fighter.
FAMILIAL NATURE OF HIS CULT
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Idolatry of Kim Il-sung
• Cult of Kim Il-sung is neither an accident nor an overnight phenomenon.
• The sources and substance of Kim’s cult are not all groundless fabrications. The problem with his cult is one of excess.
• The unprecedented intensity, scope and duration of the Kim Il-sung cult.
• Usually the cult may be imitable but not inheritable – death of Kim Il-sung was iconoclasm of his own cult.