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Making Sense of North Korea: Pyongyang and Comparative Communism
Abstract
Highly repressive, heavily militarized, strongly resistant to reform, and ruled by a dynastic dictatorship that adheres to a hybrid ideology, North Korea might be “the strangest political system in existence.” While distinctive, North Korea is an orthodox communist party-state best classified as an eroding totalitarian regime. Although weakening, Pyongyang remains durable and could survive for many more years. Absent “regime change,” North Korea is unlikely to demilitarize—including relinquishing its nuclear program—and will continue to reject thoroughgoing economic reform, cling to ideology for legitimacy, and make every effort to engineer a successful dynastic succession.
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“it supports the literature demonstrating that these do not contradict North Korea's socialist elements, which remain dominant (Scobell 2005).”
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“There is therefore little basis for the view of Songun as a revisionist policy.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Scobell, A.
- Corresponding author
- Scobell, Andrew
- Venue
- Asian Security
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2005-09
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 245-266
- ISSN
- 1479-9855 (ISSN-L)
- 1555-2764
- OpenAlex
- W2055538009
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 4.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Asian Security (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Keywords
- North Korea, totalitarian regimes, regime durability, regime change, nuclear program, demilitarization, economic reform, dynastic succession, comparative communism
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