This dissertation is an attempt to analyze.
The power elites recruitment in the North Korean power structure which has an attribute to overthrow South Korea and mate it communistic.
The fact we never fail to acknowledge is that North Korean Politica...
This dissertation is an attempt to analyze.
The power elites recruitment in the North Korean power structure which has an attribute to overthrow South Korea and mate it communistic.
The fact we never fail to acknowledge is that North Korean Political power is perfectly founded on the cloced society which denies all the influences of the outer world.
This is the reason why if the closed society collapses the Power itself falls down as well.
Accordingly this author intends to analyses those as follows, what kind of persons occupies the important positions and are recruited as the ruling class in North Korea?;
How and where are they educated and trained?;
Through which organization and institutions are they recruited and promoted?; what role does the Workers' Party play?
This author thinks that the above mentioned questions have to be investigated.
In undertaking this task, the author analyzed in part Ⅱ, how communist palitical systems recruit the power elites and how the party apparatus function in appointing and promototing the party members in the hierarchy of power structure.
In part Ⅲ, the party apparatus and governmental structure are illustrated.
Especially after the Six Congress, a shift in generation of the power structure of the Korean Workers' Party was analyzed as follows.
First, attention was focused on how the status of heir-apparent Kim Jong-il in the party hierarchy was determined.
Second, those who belonged to the first generation of revolutionaries made room for new faces.
Third, Political power is now shared among the revolutionary generation, party and technical bureaucrats and the generation of Kim Jong-il.
In part Ⅳ, a concrete process recruiting elites has been investigated to examine how formal institutions such as schools, groups and the party have functioned to train and educated the North Korean youngsters.
In conclusion, in the aftermath of the Six Party Congress the unprecedentied monolithic one-man-dictatorship and the hereditary succession possibility based on nepotism are evaluated as major characteristics of the North Korean power elite structure and recruitment.
This writer can point out that the criteria of ascriptiveness nepotism and rigidity in choosing power elites of the North Korean. power structure will be more thoroughy adopted than those of openess, ability and accomplishment for the time being.
On the other hand the North Korean Political System will be confronted with strong pressures that ought to be recruited according to the abilities and accomplishments of elites.