A historical approach to the leadership of the Organisation and Guidance Department of the Workers’ Party of Korea

• Authors: Levi Nicolas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

North Korean political organisations have produced a system which is automatically connected to the cult of the Kim family. The paper assumes that North Korea is ruled by an alliance of people affiliated with Kim Il-sung family and two political organisations – the Organisation and Guidance Department and the Personal Secretariat, both of which are sub-branches of the Party Central Committee.

Keywords

EN

Kim Il Sung; Kim Jong Il; Kim Kyong Ok; North Korea; OGD Department of the WPK; PAD Department of the WPK; Ri Je Kang

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 32
• Pages: 99-116

Dates

published

2019-12-01

Contributors

author

Levi Nicolas

• Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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