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THE ROLE OF THE DPRK’S PROPAGANDA OFFICE IN THE
KOREAN WAR (1946-1953)
by
Sang Bum Kim
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(EAST ASIAN AREA STUDIES)
August 2012
Copyright 2012 Sang Bum Kim
Object Description
| Title | The role of the DPRK's Propaganda Office in the Korean War (1946-1953) |
| Author | Kim, Sang Bum |
| Author email | sangbumk@usc.edu;sangbumk7@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | East Asian Area Studies |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-08-07 |
| Date submitted | 2012-05-25 |
| Date approved | 2012-05-29 |
| Restricted until | 2012-05-29 |
| Date published | 2012-05-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kang, David |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Cooper, Eugene Park, Sunyoung |
| Abstract | This research investigates how propaganda was used to prevent the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) from collapsing during the Korean War. In particular, we will focus on the propaganda office as the functional unit of organization for the war effort. This office was central the government’s efforts to recover and reestablish political and economic strength, especially in rural regions. To solidify its political and agricultural authority, the regime relied on political-ideological public education and the mobilization of war resources. This study will examine the propaganda office’s key role in establishing and maintaining the regime’s legitimacy throughout the Korean War. This study focuses on North Korea’s propaganda office because it was central to the regime’s answer to these challenges. The major and primary resource of my research comes from a daily periodical of the North Korean Workers’ Party. Because North Korea continuously fabricated, controlled, and developed ideology for its regime through its own interpretation of his history, the language in its current books and journals has been moditified to reflect a fabricated history. However, the daily Rodong Sinmun has not been tampered with. This provides a unique opportunity to uncover what actually occurred inside the regime during the Korean War. In addition, the daily is the only publication that presents extensive information that can be inferred about the propaganda office because the daily was one of the primary propaganda tools used during the Korean War. |
| Keyword | legitimacy; North Korea; propaganda; Propaganda Office; the Korean War; the NKWP |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Kim, Sang Bum |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-KimSangBum-861.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | THE ROLE OF THE DPRK’S PROPAGANDA OFFICE IN THE KOREAN WAR (1946-1953) by Sang Bum Kim A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (EAST ASIAN AREA STUDIES) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Sang Bum Kim |
