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@article{ART002825361},
author={Kim, Tae-Kyung and Jung-Chul Lee and Yang Hui},
title={The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime},
journal={Analyses & Alternatives},
issn={2508-822X},
year={2022},
volume={6},
number={1},
pages={115-162},
doi={10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.004}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kim, Tae-Kyung
AU - Jung-Chul Lee
AU - Yang Hui
TI - The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime
JO - Analyses & Alternatives
PY - 2022
VL - 6
IS - 1
PB - Korea Consensus Institute
SP - 115
EP - 162
SN - 2508-822X
AB - The Rules of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), revised at the eighth Party Congress in 2021, reflect the Kim Jong Un regime’s changes in strategic lines and ideological justifications on North Korea’s socialism and communism, and its recent stances against the external environment. Moreover, they contain critical changes in the party’s organizational system encompassing the central and the provinces. This study explores the organizational changes of the “monolithic guidance system of the party core” stipulated by the new party rules in January 2021, based on the analysis of the entire nine revised rules of the WPK since 1945. In the 2021 Party Congress, the Kim Jong Un regime, which officially came to power after the fourth Party Conference in 2012, has institutionalized the monolithic guidance system centered on the party core, or the head of state, Kim Jong Un. The newly set leadership and execution system, which reorganized party, government, and military organizational structure and accompanied the relevant personnel changes, was derived from the attempts for reinstating the Kim Jong Un regime as a more normalized party-state structure before its 10th year in power in April 2022. The “monolithic leadership system of the party core” established a system of “organizational leadership” through the organization of the Central Committee, directed by the Party Head, or General Secretary. The institutionalization of the new system resulted from the ten-year development of the revival of the party-state structure, which compromised the status of the military and reconfirmed the party’s control of the military. This study explains the new system from the perspectives of both institutionalization and top-down unity, shedding light on the new party-military-government relations of the Kim Jong Un regime. The analysis contributes to a better understanding and forecasting of the Kim Jong Un regime’s governance, which currently strengthens the monolithic leadership system as a crisis management system in the face of the “triple hardships” of sanctions, Covid and disaster.
KW - Rules of the Workers’ Party of Korea;Monolithic Guidance System of the Party Core;Party-Civil-Military Relations;Kim Jong Un Regime;System of Crisis Management
DO - 10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.004
ER -

Kim, Tae-Kyung, Jung-Chul Lee and Yang Hui. (2022). The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime. Analyses & Alternatives, 6(1), 115-162.

Kim, Tae-Kyung, Jung-Chul Lee and Yang Hui. 2022, "The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime", Analyses & Alternatives, vol.6, no.1 pp.115-162. Available from: doi:10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.004

Kim, Tae-Kyung, Jung-Chul Lee, Yang Hui "The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime" Analyses & Alternatives 6.1 pp.115-162 (2022) : 115.

Kim, Tae-Kyung, Jung-Chul Lee, Yang Hui. The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime. 2022; 6(1), 115-162. Available from: doi:10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.004

Kim, Tae-Kyung, Jung-Chul Lee and Yang Hui. "The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime" Analyses & Alternatives 6, no.1 (2022) : 115-162.doi: 10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.004

Kim, Tae-Kyung; Jung-Chul Lee; Yang Hui. The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime. Analyses & Alternatives, 6(1), 115-162. doi: 10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.004

Kim, Tae-Kyung; Jung-Chul Lee; Yang Hui. The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime. Analyses & Alternatives. 2022; 6(1) 115-162. doi: 10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.004

Kim, Tae-Kyung, Jung-Chul Lee, Yang Hui. The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime. 2022; 6(1), 115-162. Available from: doi:10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.004

Kim, Tae-Kyung, Jung-Chul Lee and Yang Hui. "The Revision of the Rules of the Workersʼ Party of Korea and the Organizational Changes of the ʻMonolithic Guidance System of the Party Coreʼ: Focusing on Party-Government-Military Relations in Kim Jong Un Regime" Analyses & Alternatives 6, no.1 (2022) : 115-162.doi: 10.22931/aanda.2022.6.1.004