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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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2015.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in Korean studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Leader symbols in North Korea
- Leader symbols, the cult, and its impact on political succession
- Myth- and ritual-making in Kim Il Sung's anti-Japanese struggle
- The Kims : image-making
- Symbolic leadership : the leader's guidance tour as a symbolic act
- Conclusion.