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North Korea’s Discourses of Social Control and Logics of the Cultural Cold War -Focusing on the Discourses on ‘Custom and Manner’-

  • The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
  • Abbr : NEA
  • 2018, 33(2), pp.153-179
  • DOI : 10.18013/jnar.2018.33.2.006
  • Publisher : The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
  • Research Area : Social Science > Political Science > International Politics > International Relations / Cooperation
  • Received : November 20, 2018
  • Accepted : December 20, 2018
  • Published : December 31, 2018

HAN, Jae Heon 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examined the structure and logic of North Korea's discourse related to customs through the Cold War as a culture, establishment of social order in Cold War, and the division of nationalism of sentiments(passions). The censorship and crackdown of customs are closely related to the process of forming the ‘subjectivity’ of North Koreans by the medium of the areas of everyday life and culture with the aim of ‘modernization’ and ‘socialist man’, in a huge movement of North Korea’s nation and system formation. The process of ‘modernization’ embeded the ambivalent attitude of ‘capitalism’ represented by Western culture, and it appeared on the one hand as the desire for material modernization, but on the other hand as the political one concerning the loss of inherent ethnic sentiments, aesthetics, spirit or soul. And this ‘mechanics of subjectivation’ of customs censorship and crackdown was to use the legacy of colonial and Japanese colonial fascism as a modified form, and it was the mixed formation process of governmental technology connected with the unique cultural Cold War and nationalism relating ‘degenerate/disruption’ symbolically with American imperialism and South Korea, at the same time, including the socialist modernization ideology that formed a new human form.

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