The 1994-2004 period in North Korean can be seen as a time of de-Stalinization from below. In spite of the government’s unwillingness to introduce meaningful reforms, the hyper-Stalinist system slowly disintegrated.
However, recent events clearly indicate that since 2004, the North Korean government has been trying to re-establish control over society and reverse the changes that happened in the decade after Kim Il Sung’s death.
On February 11, the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at Brookings and the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS hosted Dr. Andrei Lankov for a presentation on the North Korean government’s attempt at reestablishing its control and reversing the changes that occurred in the decade after Kim Il Sung’s death.
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