Download or read book Historical Experience of Building the Workers Party of Korea written by Il-sŏng Kim and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Korean Workers Party written by Chong-Sik Lee and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kim Jong Il written by Central Committee The Workers' Party of Korea and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comrade Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers'Party of Korea, is the most faithful successor to the revolutionarycause of Juche1, the Supreme Commander of the revolutionaryarmed forces of Korea and the great leader of theWorkers' Party of Korea and the Korean people. In the firstdays of his revolutionary activities he set it as his lifetime taskto complete the cause of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the great leaderof the Korean people, and has scored immortal exploits or theParty and the revolution, for the country and the people.The historical course of his leadership over the Workers'Party of Korea has covered the arduous and trying period inwhich the internal and external situation of the revolution wasvery complex and the Party and the revolution were faced withtasks more difficult and enormous than ever before. In thearduous days when the fierce class struggle between socialismand capitalism was waged amid the protracted confrontationwith the allied forces of imperialism of the world, ComradeKim Jong Il, as the closest comrade and most faithful assistantof Comrade Kim Il Sung, has always held fast to the banner ofsocialism, the banner of the revolution, and turned misfortunesinto blessings and adversities into favourable conditions, thusleading the Korean revolution to continuous upsurge and brilliantvictory.Through energetic ideological and theoretical activities hesystematized Comrade Kim Il Sung's revolutionary ideologyinto the ideology, theory and methodology of Juche, developingit to be the immortal revolutionary banner of the era ofindependence. He also worked out powerful ideological andtheoretical weapon for the Korean revolution by giving scientificand theoretical answers to the urgent problems arising inthe revolution and construction.He advanced the idea that the working-class party mustbecome the party of the leader and put the idea into practice. Inthis way he brought about a fundamental change in the building,activities and work of the Party, strengthened the Workers'Party of Korea founded by Comrade Kim Il Sung to be arevolutionary party of the Juche type and improved its militantefficiency and leadership.In command of the overall revolutionary armed forces hedeveloped the Korean People's Army to be the genuine armedforces of the Party and the leader and to be the invincible revolutionaryarmed forces that staunchly safeguard the Party andthe cause of socialism by force of arms and turned the countryinto an impregnable fortress in which the entire population areunder arms.He put forward a fresh line to imbue the whole society withthe Juche idea2 and stepped up the three revolutions-ideological,technological and cultural-strengthening the singleheartedunity of the revolutionary ranks to be invincible. Heushered in a new history of radical turn and brilliant floweringin the overall economic and cultural construction.Sharing joy and sorrow with the people at all times andthrough genuine popular politics, the benevolent politics, hehas made the whole country a large revolutionary family inwhich all people are united around the Party and the leader. Hehas also shown deep concern to providing the Korean peoplewith worthwhile and happy lives.Through tireless revolutionary activities spanning over 30years he ushered in a new era of prosperity of theKim Il Sung's nation for Korea.The editorial board publishes Comrade Kim Jong Il's Brief History to help those who want to know the history of Comrade Kim Jong Il's activities.
Download or read book Nation Building in South Korea written by Gregg Brazinsky and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazinsky explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century. He contends that a distinctive combination of American initiatives and Korean agency enabled South Korea's stunning transformation. Expanding the framework of traditional diplomatic history, Brazinsky examines not only state-to-state relations, but also the social and cultural interactions between Americans and South Koreans. He shows how Koreans adapted, resisted, and transformed American influence and promoted socioeconomic change that suited their own aspirations. Ultimately, Brazinsky argues, Koreans' capacity to tailor American institutions and ideas to their own purposes was the most important factor in the making of a democratic South Korea.
Download or read book The Real North Korea written by Andrei Lankov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive
Download or read book Communism and Reform in East Asia written by David S. G. Goodman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Kim Il Sung written by Dae-Sook Suh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the rule of the Korean dictator who was premier, and then president, of North Korea until his death.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Modern East and South East Asia written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 1862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 7-volume set reissues a range of classic out-of-print texts that cover a host of issues that have contributed to the development of modern East and South East Asia. With titles covering economics, politics, history, anthropology and security, this set provides the researcher with an essential resource on the region.
Download or read book North Korea written by Hazel Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historically founded, empirical study of social and economic transformation wrought by 'marketisation from below' in North Korea.
Download or read book Nothing to Envy written by Barbara Demick and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in 2022, in the wake of the pandemic NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST In this landmark addition to the literature of totalitarianism, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il (the father of Kim Jong-un), and a devastating famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, where displays of affection are punished, informants are rewarded, and an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life. She takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors, and through meticulous and sensitive reporting we see her subjects fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we witness their profound, life-altering disillusionment with the government and their realization that, rather than providing them with lives of abundance, their country has betrayed them. Praise for Nothing to Envy “Provocative . . . offers extensive evidence of the author’s deep knowledge of this country while keeping its sights firmly on individual stories and human details.”—The New York Times “Deeply moving . . . The personal stories are related with novelistic detail.”—The Wall Street Journal “A tour de force of meticulous reporting.”—The New York Review of Books “Excellent . . . humanizes a downtrodden, long-suffering people whose individual lives, hopes and dreams are so little known abroad.”—San Francisco Chronicle “The narrow boundaries of our knowledge have expanded radically with the publication of Nothing to Envy. . . . Elegantly structured and written, [it] is a groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction.”—John Delury, Slate “At times a page-turner, at others an intimate study in totalitarian psychology.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Download or read book Korea Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The North Korean Revolution 1945 1950 written by Charles K. Armstrong and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea's strength and resiliency, as well as of its flaws and shortcomings, lies in the poorly understood origins of its system of government. He examines the genesis of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) both as an important yet rarely studied example of a communist state and as part of modern Korean history.North Korea is one of the last redoubts of "unreformed" Marxism-Leninism in the world. Yet it is not a Soviet satellite in the East European manner, nor is its government the result of a local revolution, as in Cuba and Vietnam. Instead, the DPRK represents a unique "indigenization" of Soviet Stalinism, Armstrong finds. The system that formed under the umbrella of the Soviet occupation quickly developed into a nationalist regime as programs initiated from above merged with distinctive local conditions. Armstrong's account is based on long-classified documents captured by U.S. forces during the Korean War. This enormous archive of over 1.6 million pages provides unprecedented insight into the making of the Pyongyang regime and fuels the author's argument that the North Korean state is likely to remain viable for some years to come.
Download or read book Origins of North Korea s Juche written by Chae-jŏng Sŏ and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over five decades, North Korea has outlived many forecasts of collapse despite defects in its system. Origins of North Korea's Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development, edited by Jae-Jung Suh, argues that it has survived because of Juche, a unique political institution built on the simple notion of self-determination, whose meanings and limits have been shaped by Koreans' experiences with colonialism, war, and development amidst surrounding superpowers that have complicated their aspirations and plans. The authors in this volume collectively provide an historical institutionalist account of North Korean politics organized around the concept of Juche--commonly translated as self-reliance, but best understood as subjecthood or being a master of one's own fate--focusing on its role as a response to North Korea's experiences with colonialism, the Korean War, and economic development. The contributors further discuss how Juche circumscribes the evolutionary path that North Koreans can take as they negotiate contemporary challenges. North Korea, as it is now, is best understood in terms of Juche which embodies the cumulative effect of its historical experiences and responses, and its future potential and trajectory, as enabled and constrained by its conception of Juche. This collection provides fascinating insights into the politics and history of one of the world's most mysterious nations.
Download or read book Korean Workers written by Hagen Koo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factory and to search for justice in society. The working class in South Korea was born in a cultural and political environment extremely hostile to its development, Koo says. Korean workers forged their collective identity much more rapidly, however, than did their counterparts in other newly industrialized countries in East Asia. This book investigates how South Korea's once-docile and submissive workers reinvented themselves so quickly into a class with a distinct identity and consciousness. Based on sources ranging from workers' personal writings to union reports to in-depth interviews, this book is a penetrating analysis of the South Korean working-class experience. Koo reveals how culture and politics simultaneously suppressed and facilitated class formation in South Korea. With chapters exploring the roles of women, students, and church organizations in the struggle, the book reflects Koo's broader interest in the social and cultural dimensions of industrial transformation.
Download or read book North Korea The Politics of Regime Survival written by Young Whan Kihl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions by some of the leading experts in Korean studies, this book examines the political content of Kim Jong-Il's regime maintenance, including both the domestic strategy for regime survival and North Korea's foreign relations with South Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. It considers how and why the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) became a "hermit kingdom" in the name of Juche (self-reliance) ideology, and the potential for the barriers of isolationism to endure. This up-to-date analysis of the DPRK's domestic and external policy linkages also includes a discussion of the ongoing North Korean nuclear standoff in the region.
Download or read book The Journal of Korean Studies Volume 12 Number 1 Fall 2007 written by John Duncan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Washington-Korea Studies Program, in collaboration with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, is proud to publish the Journal of Korean Studies.
Download or read book Women of Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
