해방 후 북한 지역 지방인민위원회의 재편 : 면·리 단위를 중심으로

Abstract

This article is to analyze the process and result of the People's Committee Election of 1947 in North Korea, and to catch the organizing process and characteristics of the local People's Committee at the period of State Building in North Korea. The North Korean Provisional People’s Committee organized the election committee to hold the township and village elections, set the electoral districts, and made the voter’s lists. The Election Committee was formed through towns. And electoral districts made under the Japanese rule changed into administrative districts of village, and was under direct control of City People's Committee. In principle, candidates were needed the recommendation of the General Election Committee, but, in the case of village elections, they was recommended by the North Korean Worker's Party, and in the case of town elections, the North Korean Democratic National United Front generally recommended them in consideration of the local circumstances. Classifying the elected People Committee member according to parties, the North Korean Worker's Party winners, despite regional differences, were the most among the elected winners. Therefore, it suggests that the political influence of the North Korean Worker's Party was the most crucial, even though candidates was recommended in view of the local real circumstances. And Grouping them by social class, the majority were the peasant. In North Korea, considering that much of population was the peasant, the radical class-oriented changes within the apparatus of government had taken place. Regarding of the entry of the peasant into the political machinery, they had played an important role in building of the ‘People's Government’, which are now argued by North Korea.