Critical support isn't 'oh this CIA lie is totally based let me explain'. There is no tenet that the Kim family wielding power is essential to the revolution. The position each Kim held so far has been abolished and replaced by a more democratic institution. Kim Il Sung was the President, like in a bourgeois republic he was the head of legislature, government, party and military.
After his death there's no president anymore, its role split between the Premier, Chairman of the Presidium, the Chairman of the National Defence Commission and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Kim Jong Il was Chairman of the National Defence Commission and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, and now that position doesn't exist anymore, it's been replaced by a more horizontal structure in which nobody has full veto power.
Kim Jong Un is the first secretary of the WPK *and Chairman of the National Defence Commission. Kim Jong Un is head of state, not head of government, he has no role at all in the legislature , and does not have veto power in the Party. His formal powers are, beyond being the leader of the party and a propaganda figurehead, of foreign relations and the military . All these positions are elected.
Wtf is wrong with this thread.
Critical support isn't 'oh this CIA lie is totally based let me explain'. There is no tenet that the Kim family wielding power is essential to the revolution. The position each Kim held so far has been abolished and replaced by a more democratic institution. Kim Il Sung was the President, like in a bourgeois republic he was the head of legislature, government, party and military.
After his death there's no president anymore, its role split between the Premier, Chairman of the Presidium, the Chairman of the National Defence Commission and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Kim Jong Il was Chairman of the National Defence Commission and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, and now that position doesn't exist anymore, it's been replaced by a more horizontal structure in which nobody has full veto power.
Kim Jong Un is the first secretary of the WPK *and Chairman of the National Defence Commission. Kim Jong Un is head of state, not head of government, he has no role at all in the legislature , and does not have veto power in the Party. His formal powers are, beyond being the leader of the party and a propaganda figurehead, of foreign relations and the military . All these positions are elected.
Good post, op