Kim Jong Il's leadership of North Korea
Kim Jong Il came to power after the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994. Contrary to expectations, he has succeeded in maintaining enough political stability to remain in power. Kim Jong Il's Leadership of North Koreais an examination of how political power has been developed, transmitted from father to son, and now operates in North Korea. Using a variety of original North Korean sources, as well as South Korean materials, Jae-Cheon Lim pieces together the ostensibly contradictory and inconsistent facts into a conceptual coherent framework. This book considers Kim and his leadership through an analytical framework. composed of four main elements: i) Kim as a leader of a totalitarian society; ii) as a politician; iii) as a Korean; and iv) as an individual person
Print Book, English, 2009
Routledge, London, 2009