The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) became a more monolithic system led by the Kim Il Sung ideology and the dictatorship of Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il, whenever a faction within the Korean workers Party was purged.
The South Ko...
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) became a more monolithic system led by the Kim Il Sung ideology and the dictatorship of Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il, whenever a faction within the Korean workers Party was purged.
The South Korea Workers Party was purged between 1952 and 1955. Kim Il Sung expressed his ideology under the title, "Juch'e(Self-reliance) in the Party Ideological Activities." He characterized party members who followed the "Korean Revolution" till its end as the true party members, while he purged those who failed to follow the line. The Party's Terror Ideology that has been spread in the name of Juch'e was far from the Marxism-Leninism.
Since 1958, when the purge against the Chinese and Soviet factions was completed, Kim Il Sung began to indoctrinate people with the so-called revolutionary tradition of the Korean anti-Japanese Guerrilla war, thus misrepresenting the Chinese communists'anti-Japanese guerrilla struggles in which Kim Il sung himself had participated before Korea's liberation in1945. The history of struggles by Koreans, who followed the Marxist-Leninist line, was totally eliminated by Kim Il Sung.
History and ideology in North Korea have become monolithic under Kim Il Sung, who has placed North Korea under a brutal repressive political system. He has violated law and placed Party guidance above the legal system. At the same time, the entire population was classified into three basic groups; Core, Wavering, and Hostile groups. These groups were further subdivided into 51 smaller groups. The Korean workers Party made up of the core of the core goop reigns over a rigid class society with absolute power, which defies a comparison with the power enjoyed by Stalin. Kim Il Sung also established a strict Party ideological structure largely based on loyalty to the Korean Workers Party's Central Committee.
In 1967, Kim Il Sung purged Pak Kum-ch'ol and his faction. Since Pak's purge, Kim has presented the DPRK as a model of proletarian dictoatorship that consists of Suryong (the Supreme leader), the Party, the class system and the people. He placed the status of Suryong above the Party's Central Committee and made every effort to establish "the Monolithic Ideological system of the KWP," ruled by the Suryong.
In 1973, Kim Il Sung chose his son Kim Jong Il as his heir and retired to the symbolic post of the President. Nevertheless, the DPRK has been ruled by the Kim Il Sung ideology that was created during the period of 1955-1974. The legitimacy of the Kim Jong Il rule is now rationalized by the Kim Il Sung ideology in the name of the "Politics of the Suryong's Will." He is unable to develop his own ideology replacing that of his father. It is therefore appropriate to say that there has been no real and meaningful changes in North Korea.