[KS] NKIDP Working Paper #3: "'Mostly Propaganda in Nature:' Kim Il Sung, the Juche Ideology, and the Second Korean War" by Mitch Lerner

James Person jfperson at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 17 16:19:59 EST 2010


NKIDP is pleased to announce the publication of Working Paper #3, 
"'Mostly Propaganda in Nature:' Kim Il Sung, the Juche Ideology, and the 
Second Korean War" by Mitchell Lerner. Based on newly declassified Czech, 
(East) German, Russian, and Hungarian archival documents, Lerner explores the 
origins of North Korea's military adventurism in the late 1960s. Lerner argues 
that the source of North Korea's conduct during this period was an attempt to 
compensate for internal failures by generating external crises that would help 
North Korean leader Kim Il Sung offset any potential threat to his control 
largely by using these crises as a platform to demonstrate his adherence to 
Juche, or "self-reliance" ideology, which by the mid-1960s had been 
established as the nation's primary value system.

The Working Paper 
includes an extensive appendix of translated Czech, (East) German, Russian, and 
Hungarian archival documents.

Mitchell Lerner is associate 
professor of history at the Ohio State University and the Mershon Center for 
National Security Studies. He is the author of The Pueblo Incident: A Spy 
Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (Kansas, 2002), and has 
published articles about US-Korean relations in Diplomatic History, 
Diplomacy and Statecraft, the Korea Society Quarterly, and the 
Journal of Cold War Studies. Professor Lerner is also the editor of 
Looking Back at LBJ, a collection of essays about the Johnson 
Administration which was published in 2005. 

To view Working Paper #3 
visit http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/Lerner%20WP%20web.pdf


 		 	   		  
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