북한 근로단체 간에 나타난 오더링(Ordering)과 네이밍(Naming)의 정치

Abstract

In order to maintain social tension through competition, North Korea is mixing ‘the politics of ordering’ that clarifies the order between members or (groups) and ‘the politics of naming’ that gives the higher stratified meaningful names. In this paper, this was examined through North Korea’s four major labor organizations: the Youth League, the Women's League, the Vocational Union, and the Agricultural Workers' Union. First of all, the Joseon Labor party's dominance over the four major Labor Organizations was examined in terms of institutional and historical aspects. Among the Labor Organizations, it was clear through the order of holding their conferences that there was a cutting-edge distinction between the “Youth Alliance“ as a power-favored group and “the Other Labor Organizations“ as a power-marginalized group. In addition, even within “the Other Labor Organizations,” the status of each Labor Organization was changing over time depending on the power relationship with the supreme leader or his perception of the organizational situation. Additionally, North Korea's Youth Alliance has twice included the glorious name of their supreme leaders in its organizational name such as the “Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth Alliance” and the “Kim Il-sung-Kim Jong-il Youth Alliance” while other Labor Organizations have never been bestowed until now. And recently, the status and role of the Women's Alliance have also been raised as its name was changed into the “Socialist Women's League“ at the Kim Jong-un period. It is necessary to recognize that North Korea's Ordering and Naming politics play a basic role of system enhancement, but at the same time, also have an inherent property of system dissolution in terms of class conflict.