북한 지도자의 호칭과 우상화에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study took note of the iconography as one way of idolization guaranteeing the authority of the recipient, looking at the changes in the honorific title announced by the DPRK at the Party or the national body from the perspective of the so-called “institutional position strategy” claimed by the author. The results of the study are as follows: First, the position of the leader was divided into the position of party, national and post-election symbolic of representative and the position of the party, government, and military, in parallel with differentiation and dual rights. Second, the leadership of the party, which encompasses the party and the government, was changed to a great leader, supreme leader, and supreme representative, and the national position as party secretary, party secretary, party chairman was used as chairman, chairman of the National Defense Commission. In particular, the government has shown a tendency to show off the stability of the regime at home and abroad by creating new positions and naming them while abolishing the position of the election leader. Third, the procedure and method of connecting the position of the recipient to the idolization by system differentiation and authority can be seen repeatedly. Finally, the honorific title to the recipient is proportional to the stability of power, and the stability of power, or the durability of the regime, can be considered as one indicator that reflects idolization.