김정일 시대 권력엘리트 변화

Abstract

This article analyzes the change of North Korea power elites in the Kim Jong-Il era who take up their positions at the Workers Party of Korea, the Supreme Peoples Assembly, the Cabinet, the National Defense Commission, the Korean Peoples Army, and the factory. The time span is from early in 1990s to 2007. The features of this change in the last 10 years are as follows. From 2.5 generation to the third one; local changes more than central changes; the changes in economic experts more than in political or military bureaucrats. Larger generational shift will be proceeded in relation of the supreme power succession. The first revolutionary generation who have propped up Kim Jong-Il would step down, the second revolutionary generation (the Korean War, post-war restoration generation) who would act as guardian for a successor would fill in the vacancy in the name of respect for revolution seniors, and new generation (under forties) would emerge as core elites in charge of policy implementing and practical affairs.