Suheun Kim

How Populist Tactics Solidify the Legitimacy of North Korea’s Supreme Leader

The core of populism is in creating an image of the people and representing them to justify political power. [1] It is based on a myth as “the people” as a singular entity does not exist. A populist...

North Korea as a Populist Regime

University of Chicago

The political structure of a country is often presented on a spectrum; it is the degree of democracy or autocracy rather than a dichotomous classification. [1] For sure, many scholars have argued...