Summary of Jieun Baek's North Korea's Hidden Revolution

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 North Korea’s history explains how the country has been able to remain such a durable regime.
#2 The Korean Peninsula’s history starts in the Paleolithic era, with the legendary Gojoseon kingdom established in 2333 BCE. In 1905, Korea became a protectorate of Japan, and in 1910, the Japan-Korea Treaty marked the annexation of the Korean empire and the beginning of the brutal colonization of the Korean people.
#3 Kim Il-Sung, the leader of North Korea, transformed the country into a socialist nation in the 1960s and 1970s. The country was able to outperform its southern counterpart during this period, and so was able to inspire citizens’ loyalty to Kim Il-Sung.
#4 The three main principles of the North Korean ideology are political and ideological independence from other nations, military independence and sufficient national defense, and economic self-sufficiency.

Sujets

• Colonisation
• Corée
• Asia
• History
• Korea
• Histoire

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 11 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822529816
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Jieun Baek's North Koreas Hidden Revolution
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

North Korea’s history explains how the country has been able to remain such a durable regime.

#2

The Korean Peninsula’s history starts in the Paleolithic era, with the legendary Gojoseon kingdom established in 2333 BCE. In 1905, Korea became a protectorate of Japan, and in 1910, the Japan-Korea Treaty marked the annexation of the Korean empire and the beginning of the brutal colonization of the Korean people.

#3

Kim Il-Sung, the leader of North Korea, transformed the country into a socialist nation in the 1960s and 1970s. The country was able to outperform its southern counterpart during this period, and so was able to inspire citizens’ loyalty to Kim Il-Sung.

#4

The three main principles of the North Korean ideology are political and ideological independence from other nations, military independence and sufficient national defense, and economic self-sufficiency.

#5

Citizens are supposed to criticize themselves and each other for how they have fallen short of living in perfect accordance with the Ten Principles, which are recited during the sessions.

#6

Songbun is the government’s classification system that determines how much freedom citizens have. Those in the highest Songbun class, called the core class, have extensive privileges, while others who are marked with lower status live with fewer opportunities.

#7

The proliferation of grassroots markets in North Korea since the mid-1990s famine has given rise to new social norms that have made parts of the Songbun classification system less relevant.

#8

The North Korean government creates and propagates ideological campaigns and education rooted in juche. The Propaganda and Agitation Department is the primary agency tasked with this, and it is linked with the Organization and Guidance Department to guarantee ideological alignment and continuity with the state.

#9

North Korea’s youth league is tasked with teaching children the state’s political ideology. The league is omnipresent, and its propaganda posters, banners, and radios can be found everywhere.

#10

The country has devoted a lot of resources to crafting, polishing, and sustaining godlike images of the three Supreme Leaders and their families. Anyone who questions the veracity of the country’s history or leaders’ biographies faces a harsh reprimand.

#11

Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il are hung prominently in both private and public spaces in North Korea. The portraits must be hung up high in a central place, where no one’s head is higher than the portraits.

#12

North Korea has the world’s largest mausoleum dedicated to a Communist leader. It was built in Pyongyang in 1976 and served as Kim Il-Sung’s residence until his death in 1994. The cost of converting this residence into a mausoleum is difficult to verify, but estimates range from $100 million to $800 million.

#13

I was raised in a Christian family, and I fully believe in the Gospel. I was also raised to believe in the Immaculate Conception and the Holy Family. I fully believe in these beliefs despite external skepticism.

#14

North Korea has the fourth largest military in the world, after China, the United States, and India. The World Bank estimates that in 2013, the Korean People’s Army had 1. 379 million members.

#15

North Korea has been a major player in international politics for the past twenty-five years, as its nuclear arsenal has been the country’s primary negotiating chip in bilateral and international forums.

#16

North Korea’s missiles and rockets are shown off at military parades in Pyongyang, and grandiose statements are made about how North Korea has the world on its knees because of its nuclear power. However, the threat is being taken seriously by all.

#17

North Korea is a closed country, and it treats ordinary data as top national-security secrets. Information about the population, economy, leadership, decision-making, and the health of the leader is kept secret so that other countries’ intelligence bodies have to resort to estimating and extrapolating even basic information.

#18

The lack of real information about North Korea has led to a thriving cottage industry of sensationalized stories about the country’s daily life.

#19

North Korean defectors share that the Korean term for human rights does not exist, and that the concept of having inalienable rights is foreign to those living in North Korea.