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Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics (Contemporary Asia in the World) by [McEachern, Patrick]

Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics (Contemporary Asia in the World) Kindle Edition

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Traditional political models fail to account for North Korea's institutional politics, making the country's actions seem surprising or confusing when, in fact, they often conform to the regime's own logic. Drawing on recent primary materials, including North Korean speeches, commentaries, and articles, Patrick McEachern, a specialist on North Korean affairs, reveals how the state's political institutions debate policy and inform and execute strategic-level decisions.

Many scholars dismiss Kim Jong-Il's regime as a "one-man dictatorship" and call him the "last totalitarian leader," but McEachern identifies three major institutions that help maintain regime continuity: the cabinet, the military, and the party. These groups hold different institutional policy platforms and debate high-level policy options both before and after Kim and his senior leadership make their final call. This method of rule may challenge expectations, but North Korea does not follow a classically totalitarian, personalistic, or corporatist model. Rather than being monolithic, McEachern argues, the regime, emerging from the crises of the 1990s, rules differently today than it did under Kim's father, Kim Il Sung. The son is less powerful and pits institutions against one another in a strategy of divide and rule. His leadership is fundamentally different: it is "post-totalitarian." Authority may be centralized, but power remains diffuse. McEachern maps this process in great detail, supplying vital perspective on North Korea's reactive policy choices, which continue to bewilder the West., reviewing a previous edition or volume

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File Size: 2904 KB
Print Length: 322 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (December 22, 2010)
Publication Date: December 22, 2010
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Language: English
ASIN: B005VSIF5I
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ByMooonshinefunkon March 10, 2013

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This is easily one of the best books on the political workings of the DPRK since its founding. Among the expert Korea community this was regarded as one of the most pathbreaking books to come out in years. MaEachern examines how the DPRK has devolved from a more perfect totalitarian state under Kim il-Sung to a regime characterized by elite in-fighting between three different groups: the party, the military, and the heads of the bureaucracy.

The author is now a foreign service officers and Seoul but wrote this for his dissertation at UMD. Although its more academic than many of the popular titles on the DPRK, if you want to go beyond the headlines on North Korea this is the book to do it with.

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