TY  - JOUR
T1  - Kim Jong-il's Succession Campaign of the 1970s: A Comparison of Propaganda Tracks
AU  - Tertitskiy, Fyodor 
JO  - Academia Koreana
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/1/1
DO  - 10.18399/acta.2022.25.1.002
KW  - Kim Il-sung
KW  - Kim Joing-il
KW  - succession of power
KW  - hereditary dictatorships
KW  - propaganda tracks
KW  - B. R. Myers
AB  - This article offers a fresh look into one of the key events of North Korean history, the ideological campaign of the 1970s which promoted Kim Jong-il (Kim Chŏngil [inline-graphic 01]) as the successor to his father. Previous research on the subject has generally been limited to analyzing open sources. I, however, obtained a copy of an electronic archive of the restricted-access DPRK newspaper Chosŏn inmin'gun [inline-graphic 02]. This discovery, along with North Korea's declassification of some information about Kim Jong-il's campaign, makes it possible to compare how the campaign was presented in open and restricted sources.