미국 역사학계의 북한사 인식 비판 : 찰스 암스트롱을 중심으로 = Review on the Perception on the History of North Korea of U.S.A.'s learnd Circles - Focusing on Charles Armstrong's view point

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay aims to analyze Charles Armstrong's research in a critical manner. He finds the main source of the strength and the resiliency for North Korea, which enabled polity to weather up the period of gloom and doom when collapse of North Korea anticipated since later 1980's, in the 'unknown' origination of its regime. Accordingly, the author examines the origination of the North Korean regime in order to predict to where the regime steers.
Armstrong notices 'indigenization' as one of the main characters of the North Korean regime. It is true that North Korean government was incubated by the Soviet Stalinism; however, these 'indigenous' features facilitated and nurtured the regime to develop into where the regime now stands. He peruses the 'indigenization' of North Korea in the political and cultural scene of Korean society before 1945 when Korea regained her independence. He asserts that the North Korean regime has moved from the 'nee-Confucian monarchy' to 'Japanese colonialism,' and to 'Stalinism.' The author further states that the unique North Korean system engendered under these traditions let North Korea government survive through the hardship of wars, division, cold war, famine, and economic crisis.
Although Armstrong's argument which is carefully articulated to explain the current situation where North Korea lies in has reasons to agree with, it is also quintessential to revise his deduction that the North Korean 'particularity' had been directly generated from the pre-modern Korean monarchy and the Japanese colonial rule. This essay comments on the Armstrong's main ideas with several key words - the 'Orientalism' and the 'Critique of Modernity.'

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 머리말-북한체제의 기원을 바라보는 저자의 문제의식
• 2. 북한의 특성을 유교로 환원시키는 ‘오리엔탈리즘’
• 3. ‘근대 비판’ 속에 사라진 식민지와 독립국의 차별성
• 4. 맺음말-동시대를 다룬 국내 연구와의 차이점
• 참고문헌

참고문헌 (Reference)

1 예대열, "해방이후 북한의 노동조합 성격논쟁과 노동정책 특질" 한국역사연구회 (70) : 207-245, 2008

2 정태헌, "한국의 식민지적 근대성찰" 선인 2007

3 박노자, "하얀 가면의 제국" 한겨레출판 2003

4 김성보, "탈중심의 세계사 인식과 한국근현대사 성찰" 역사문제연구소 (80) : 236-263, 2007

5 에드워드 사이드, "오리엔탈리즘" 교보문고 1999

6 브루스 커밍스, "브루스 커밍스의 한국현대사" 창작과비평사 2001

7 김연철, "북한의 국가형성" 일조각 4 : 2006

8 서동만, "북조선사회주의체제성립사" 선인 2005

9 찰스 암스트롱, "북조선 탄생" 서해문집 2006

10 기광서, "내부적 역동성에 주목한 북조선 혁명사 ―『북조선 탄생』(찰스 암스트롱, 서해문집, 2006)" 역사문제연구소 (83) : 443-450, 2008

11 김성보, "남북한 경제구조의 기원과 전개" 역사비평사 2000

12 브루스 커밍스, "김정일 코드" 따뜻한손 2005