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The Organizational Life: Daily Surveillance and Daily Resistance in North Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2016

Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov ,
In-ok Kwak  and
Choong-Bin Cho
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The “organizational life” is an important part of the daily existence of North Koreans. Every adult in North Korea has to be a participant in a multitude of rituals that serve a dual purpose of surveillance and indoctrination. In this article, we describe how the organizational life is arranged and also explain the ways it contributes to maintaining the domestic stability of North Korea and to manufacturing consent for the current regime. The study is based largely on refugee interviews.

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North KoreasurveillanceideologyindoctrinationKorean Workers Partyhorizontal propagandacoproductionideological mobilizationrefugees
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Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 193 - 214
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