North Korea : beyond charismatic politics
This timely, pathbreaking study of North Korea's political history and culture sheds invaluable light on the country's unique leadership continuity and succession. Leading scholars Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung begin by tracing Kim Il Sung's rise to power during the Cold War. They show how his successor, his eldest son, Kim Jong Il, sponsored the production of revolutionary art to unleash a public political culture that would consolidate Kim's charismatic power and his own hereditary authority. The result was the birth of a powerful modern theater state that sustains North K
eBook, English, ©2012
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, Lanham, Maryland, ©2012
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9781442215771, 1442215771
1030378521
Title from PDF title page (viewed August 1, 2012). - Includes bibliographical references and index