북한 김정은 시대 청년동맹 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the regime stability of DemocraticPeople’s Republic of Korea(North Korea) and prospect the regime by analyzing the roleof the Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League(KSYL). Currently, North Korea is unaided,so the youth play a key role in maintaining and developing the North Korean regime. After the death of Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un became his successor and but itseemed to that he did not have support base politically and form Charismatic leadership. Therefore, success or failure of his power succession totally depends on how to educateand select party and government officials and adjust their political profits. Kim Jong-unhas attached great importance to the KSYL for these reasons. It is important to note that ex-the KSYL officials have emerged as new core politicalleaders of the North Korean Workers’ Party(NKWP) in the Kim Jong-un era. It was alsousual for ex-the KSYL officials became core leaders of the NKWP in the Kim Jong-ilera, but a big difference is that in comparsion to the Kim Jong-il era, most of the ex-theKSYL officials have become key political leaders at the party and government and powerfulin the Kim Jong-un era. North korea has continuously enforced educational work for theyouth in the Kim Jong-un era, because when he was appointed to Kim Jong-il’s successor,Jaesmine Revolution broke out and North Korea saw the youth in Arab playing a significantrole in the regime change. For this reason, it is becoming more important to strengthen educational work forthe youth in the Kim Jong-un era. Recently, North Korea has mobilized the youth toconstruct the Paekdu Sungun power plant and repair planned the Pukbu railroad that arecore economic plans in the Kim Jong-un era. These works enable North Korean peopleto realize that North Korea’s economic situation is still poor, but our leader Kim Jong-undoes his best to continue and develop the socialist state with the youth.