This dissertation focused on the characteristics and establish process of Self-reliance economic policy(Jaribgeok minjokkyoungjae kunseolnosun) in North Korea. Officially, The North Korean government has insisted that this discourse is a significant e...
This dissertation focused on the characteristics and establish process of Self-reliance economic policy(Jaribgeok minjokkyoungjae kunseolnosun) in North Korea. Officially, The North Korean government has insisted that this discourse is a significant effectiveness economic policy by using the concept of ‘benefit(Shilri)’ in the article of ‘Rodong-shinmun’(the KWP’s organ) in 1998. However, the numberous scholars have insisted that it is a main reason to explain the North Korea’s undeveloping situation. Under the reemphasis of the discourse, we had estimated that it is an inconsistent policy as strengthen the bureaucratic control and make reform actions during the state transition. Nowadays, North Korea's economic situation is not still corrupts and, even though some index shows that business has rallied.
As the two different perspectives, I argue that we tried to significantly understand about the discourse. After then, we could get a new point of view as the analysis of North Korea's economic situation. Therefore, this dissertation used the methodological concept to explain North Korea's official economic discourse there are development strategics, political economic of socialism and historical institutionalism between 1945 and 1963 in North Korea. I think that the understanding of the discourse will take in the economic environment.
During the research, I find that firstly, North Korea enforced the 'heavy industry first, light industry and agriculture simultaneously development' policy from 1945. Because, North Korea has had the legacy of Japan's industrial structure and government recognised that there bolstered the nation's defenses and an expansion of productive capacity at the same time people wanted it. After the liberation from the Japanese colonial rule, the North Korean government has carried forward to an expansion of productive capacity and elevating the standard of living of people by used the policy that heavy industry recovered stateled industrialization policy, light industry recovered privately led industrialization policy and agriculture execute the land reform to make the small farm system. After the Korean War, there are changing the policy that light industry replaced local industry, agriculture enforced agriculture production and then they continuously maintain the same policy.
Secondly, this discourse practical used the cooperation of foreign economic relationships. The North Korean government enforced the structural conditions such as the legacy of Japan's industrial structure, abundant hydropower and raw materials, as a necessary corollary, they did not used the policy of the cooperation of foreign trade, because lag behind technology did not overcome the heavy industry plants. Eventually, the economic aid from socialist states was sine qua non of the economic development in North Korea. They took the initiative on the that.
Thirdly, this discourse had innovative mind in the planned economy system. During the strengthen the discourse, self-supporting accounting system consistently emphasized. They required the self-supporting to run the economy system as the short of Soviet aid and Chinese civil war. Under the condition, the North Korea government make an effort on ensuring available funding for critical operations by defining the commodity-currency relation in socialism. Self-supporting accounting system sustained, such as factory management system(Dae an System) and work group priority policy(Jakupban priority policy) since 1958. It was a similar with socialist's economic reform debating between in the 1950s and in 1960s.
Fourth, the masses committed and agreed themselves's to a discourse. The discourse is a vital part of economic growth and they shared the propaganda to develop the discourse. Therefore, people's role was significant and important and they sacrificed of their benefits.
The previous literature shows that the four kind of characteristics are centered on the heavy industry, development strategies in a vacuum, external growth, and mobilization ideology in the discourse. However, I insisted that my research result quite different from that. The former characteristics due to the unbalanced situation about the accumulate and consume in the economic system, whereas it caused the high-rate of economic growth in the 1950s. As a result, it was determined the official economic discourse.
However, official discourse was not shown the institutional merits in the proceed of policy-decision. During the enforced the policy, firstly, they were confident to establish the socialist system in North Korea and it lose effect on the flexility of discourse itself, secondly, they trusted the concept of 'perfect triumph of socialism' and it due to that they did not accept the reform policy in the discourse. As a result, this discourse did not accept the reform policy and it failed the control of the 'growth speed' between the 1945 and 1963.
In recently, they were recognized their mistakes and understanding of the institutional merits of the discourse since 1998. In particular, the 7.1 reform policy showed the concept of 'pursuit of benefit' during the process of policy-decisions in 'Army first economic policy' since 1995. The North Korean government deleted the ideology of communism in the article of Constitutional law in 2009. It was full of suggestions about the historical revaluation and forecasting of North Korean's economic situation.