From Great Leader to Dear Leader: Kim Jong Il’s Rise to Official Heir of the North Korean Communist Regime (1974-1980)
Abstract Appointed secretly to succeed his father Kim Il Sung in 1974, Kim Jong Il had to build his own base of power over the next six years in order to secure control of the North Korean communist regime. Using currently available sources, we will analyze this period, which was marked by deep ideological changes, the issue of generational change and the unsuccessful resistance inside the regime’s institutions to hereditary succession of political power. The main objective of the regimen between 1974 and 1980 was to consolidate the figure of Kim Jong Il as the future leader and the acceptance of the father-son succession both within North Korean politics and society, as well as with Communist allies. It was not an easy task because the process had to face internal opposition within the regimen, the mistakes of Kim Jong Il himself, and the reluctance of China and the Soviet Union. However, all these incoveniences could be overcome and finally Kim Il Sung’s son was promoted to the position of heir and future leader of North Korea.
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Downs, C. (1999). Over the Line: North Korea’s Negotiating Strategy. Washington D.C.: The AEI Press.
Gause, K. E. (2012). Coercion, Control, Surveillance, and Punishment: An Examination of the North Korean Police State. Washington D.C.: Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.
GDR [German Democratic Republic] Ambassador Pyongyang to Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Berlin, November 12, 1974, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (PA AA, MfAA), C 6862. Obtained and Translated for North Korea International Documentary Project by Bernd Schaefer. http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/113928
GDR [German Democratic Republic] Ambassador Pyongyang to Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Berlin, April 14, 1975, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (PA AA, MfAA), C 6862. Obtained and Translated for North Korea International Documentary Project by Bernd Schaefer. http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/113929
GDR [German Democratic Republic] Ambassador Pyongyang to Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Berlin, July 4, 1977, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (PA AA, MfAA), C 6862. Obtained and Translated for North Korea International Documentary Project by Bernd Schaefer. http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/113931
Gomà, D. (2020). El nacimiento de la dinastía roja: La instauración de la sucesión hereditaria en Corea del Norte (1970-1974). Historia Contemporánea, 62, pp. 159-186. https://doi.org/10.1387/hc.20023
History of Revolutionary Activities of Chairman Kim Jong Il. (2015). Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House.
Hungarian Embassy in the DPRK, Telegram, 24 February 1978. Subjetc: Celebration of Kim Jong Il’s birthday, February 24, 1978, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, MOL XIX-J-1-j Korea, 1978, 80. doboz, 81-1, 001702/1978. Obtained and Translated for North Korea International Documentary Project by Balazs Szalontai. http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/116008
Jencks, H. W. (1988). The Party, the Gun and the Great Leader: Civil-Military Relations in North Korea. En R. A. Scalapino y D. Kim, D. (eds.), Asian Communism: Continuity and Transition (pp. 187-217). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Kihl, Y. W. (1984). Politics and Policies in Divided Korea: Regimes in Contest. Boulder: Westview Press.
Kim, H. (2015). Dynasty: The Hereditary Succession Politics of North Korea. Stanford: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
Kim I. S. (1980). Report to the Sixth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea on the Work of the Central Committee. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House.
Kim, J.-C. (1990). A Study of the Party-Military Relations in North Korea (Part II). Vantage Point, 13(11), pp. 1-10.
Kim Jong Il: Short Biography (2001). Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House.
Kim, N.-S. (1989). The Changing Power Hierarchy of North Korea since the 6th KWP Congress (Part I). Vantage Point, 12(2), pp. 1-11.
Koh, B. C. (1984). Political Succession in North Korea. Korea and World Affairs, 8(3), pp. 557-574.
Koh, B. C. (1985). China and the Korean Peninsula. Korea and World Affairs, 9(2), pp. 254-279.
Lee, C.-S. (1978). Korean Workers’ Party: A Short History. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press.
Lee, C.-S. (1983). The Evolution of the Korean Workers’ Party and the Rise of Kim Chong-il. En R. A. Scalapino y J.-Y. Kim (eds.), North Korea Today: Strategic and Domestic Issues (pp. 65-80). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lee, D. B. (1977). North Korea and Its Succession Issue. Korea and World Affairs, 1(1), pp. 48-66.
Lim, J.-C. (2009). Kim Jong Il’s Leadership of North Korea. Nueva York: Routledge.
Meisner, M. (1996). The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978-1994. Nueva York: Hill & Wang. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203884720
Michishita, N. (2010). North Korea’s Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008. Nueva York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203870587
Mansourov, A. Y. (2006). Emergence of the Second Republic: The Kim Regime Adapts to the Challenges of Modernity. En Y. W. Kihl y H. N. Ki (eds.), North Korea: The Politics of Regime Suvival (pp. 37-58). Armonk: M.E. Sharpe.
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