최근 북한 아동문학에 나타난 후대사랑 담론 연구 - 2014～ 2016년 아동문학분석을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The study aims to examine trends of juvenile literature after establishment of Kim Jeongeun regime, describe the process of formulating discourses on affection for the future generation and the future and state its significance. Most works published in the latest juvenile literature magazines in North Korea were concentrated on Kim Jeongeun’s personality and leadership in addition to his affection for North Korean residents and the future generations. Kim Jeongeun particularly put emphases on a young leader’s image through onthespot guidance and strategized to deify the Dear Leader by likening him to the sun and stressing his warmhearted image while comparing subject children to flowers to form a heartwarming relationship. He also enhanced onthespot guidance for leisure facilities and paid attention to operating such advanced facilities as children’s hospitals, orphanages and children’s homes. Kim Jeongeun’s affection for the future generation was stressed through affection of understanding, virtueand health. In particular, he emphasized education fever on the back of Five Point Flowers and argued for improvement of the national economy, the national defense and North Korean residents’lives by accentuating scientific advancement. As most works stressed the Dear Leader’s affection for the future generation, literary works were created within the scope of the Chief Shape Literature under the motto, ‘The Dear Leader is the sun and children are flowers.’ Kim Jeongeun who is said to have secured power in a stable way proactively exercised his political power and has built his image as an affectionate fatherly leader of a genuine people’s republic while stressing the superiority of a socialist country.