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[–] -1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The DPRK doesn't have dynastic leadership, all successive leaders have been elected to their positions, and their roles have been split up and decentralized over the years. Kim Jong Un has much less authority over the DPRK than Trump does of the US.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

    I am struggling to understand the point of referring to DPRK leadership as non-dynastic despite the obvious lineage. Your point that it is transitioning is noted, but is there some other historically-accurate term for transitory dynasties under socialism? Or is it your understanding that the state was never dynastic in the first place and the lineage has been mischaracterized?

    Is there a book you can recommend with perspective on the issue of dynasty in DPRK?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I think it's pretty easy to see that leadership powers are both more distributed in the DPRK than the west, and that all positions are elected. Professor Roland Boer's Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance covers the DPRK as well, but it's slightly outdated as the DPRK has shifted to multi-candidate primaries instead of building consensus before approval voting.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    Indeed, the hard part for me is not observing the conditions, it's the analysis of those conditions: avoiding conflation of a genuine dynasty vs. a democracy that continually wants the same family to run things. It is not an easy thing for me to navigate at all, yet.

    I will read. Thanks.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago

    No problem! And for what it's worth, "running things" isn't quite accurate. Neither Kim Jong-Il nor Kim Jong-Un have the same level of authority as Kim Il-Sung, because they are regularly breaking up bigger roles into multiple rules. In that way, the Kim family is gradually becoming less and less important, and more and more like a cultural icon.

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