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Since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (hereafter North Korea) has been ruled by three generations of the Kim family: Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un. As North Korea maintained its “socialist” ideology even after the Cold War, power was successfully passed on to the Kim Jong-il administration (1994–2011) and subsequently to the Kim Jong-un administration (2011–present). In the 1990s, there were discussions about the possibilities of the regime’s collapse and political transition. Yet, in actuality, during the 20-year period that followed, there were no people’s revolutions or military coups of the kind seen in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Furthermore, economic reform or open market policy like those undertaken by China and Vietnam did not take place in North Korea. This book relies primarily on information released by the official North Korean media, and should provide a piece of the puzzle to understanding the North Korean political regime.

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Understanding the North Korean Regime

By Atsuhito Isozaki

Understanding the North Korean Regime

Atsuhito Isozaki

Asia ProgramWoodrow Wilson International Center for ScholarsOne Woodrow Wilson Plaza1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20004-3027

ISBN: 978-1-938027-69-7April, 2017

www.wilsoncenter.org/asiaasia@wilsoncenter.orgfacebook.com/AsiaProgram@AsiaProgram202.691.4020

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