THE KIM IL SUNG CONSTITUTION AND THE CHANGE OF KIM JONG IL SYSTEM IN NORTH KOREA
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With the official launch of Kim Jong Il by his reelection to the Chairmanship of the National Defense Commission in September 1998, North Korea revised its constitution. Baptized the Kim Il Sung Constitution, North Korea's new constitution institutionalized 'Govern by the Will of the Deceased.' Regarding the readjustment of the power structure, the character of the revised constitution can be described in five respects: readjustment of the Standing Meeting of the Supreme People's Assempbly (SPA) into the Standing Committee of the SPA, the abolition of state President, the position and authority of the National Defence Commission (NDC), the abolition of the Central Peoples Committee, and the readjustment of the administration council to cabinet. The essential points of these readjustments are the following: (1) centralization of power and dispersion of responsibility and (2) institutionalization of the crisis management system by the military. These can all be seen both as a display of how confident Kim Jong Il is in himself and as an indicator of erosion of the monolithic power that has long guaranteed the stability of the North Korean political and social system.
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With the official launch of Kim Jong Il by his reelection to the Chairmanship of the National Defense Commission in September 1998, North Korea revised its constitution. Baptized the Kim Il Sung Constitution, North Korea's new constitution institutionalized 'Govern by the Will of the Deceased.' Regarding the readjustment of the power structure, the character of the revised constitution can be described in five respects: readjustment of the Standing Meeting of the Supreme People's Assempbly (SPA) into the Standing Committee of the SPA, the abolition of state President, the position and authority of the National Defence Commission (NDC), the abolition of the Central Peoples Committee, and the readjustment of the administration council to cabinet. The essential points of these readjustments are the following: (1) centralization of power and dispersion of responsibility and (2) institutionalization of the crisis management system by the military. These can all be seen both as a display of how confident Kim Jong Il is in himself and as an indicator of erosion of the monolithic power that has long guaranteed the stability of the North Korean political and social system.