Leader Symbols and Personality Cult in North Korea : the Leader State / Jae-Cheon Lim.
The legitimacy of the North Korean state is based solely on the leaders' personal legitimacy, and is maintained by the indoctrination of people with leader symbols and the enactment of leadership cults in daily life. It can thus be dubbed a ""leader state"". The frequency of...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2015.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in Korean studies ;
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| Summary: | The legitimacy of the North Korean state is based solely on the leaders' personal legitimacy, and is maintained by the indoctrination of people with leader symbols and the enactment of leadership cults in daily life. It can thus be dubbed a ""leader state"". The frequency of leader symbols and the richness and scale of leader-symbol-making in North Korea are simply unrivalled. Furthermore, the personality cults of North Korean leaders are central to people's daily activity, critically affecting their minds and emotions. Both leader symbols and cult activities are profoundly entrenched in the i |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317567417 1317567412 9781315736570 1315736578 9781317567400 1317567404 9781317567394 1317567390 |
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