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Week II:
Janury 15th and 17th
The Heyday of Kim Il Sung
Tuesday, January 15th: Purges and the Transition to Socialism
Thursday, January 17th: Mobilizational Industrialization and the "Dual Advance" Policy
Readings:
- Armstrong, Introduction, chaps 2, 3 &4
- Brian Myers (2006), "The Watershed that Wasn't: Re-Evaluating Kim Il Sung's "Juche Speech" of 1955" Acta Koreana Vol. 9. No. 1 (on course web site)
- Takahashi Sakai (1996) "The Power Base of Kim Jong IlP Focusing on Its Formation Process," In Han S. Park, ed. North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy. Prentice-Hall, pp105-122. (On course webiste)
Graduate Readings:
- Kim Il Sung (1965) "Socialist Construction," In Revolution and Socialist Construction in Korea: Selected Writings of Kim Il Sung (New York: International Publishers 1971) This is a selection from the so-called 'April Theses'
- Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig (2000), "The Power and Poverty of Ideology," In Oh and Hassig, North Korea through the Looking Glass. Brookings Institution Press pp12-40 (especially 12-21) (on course web site)
Study Questions:
- Why did the DPRK collectivize agriculture after the Korea War but not before?
- Why did Kim Il Sung want a monolithic state, and what factors helped him get it?
- What were the successes and failures of the DPRK in the 1950s and 1960s
- Why does it matter whether Kim Il Sung's 1956 speech was a "watershed"?
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