Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty (184 page)

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inspections, international,
488

as negotiating card,
442
,
444

and nuclear nonproliferation structure,
439

preemptive/preventive strike targeting,
444–445
,
676

mentioned by U.S. defense secretary,
494

as reunification dowry,
445
,
671

Russian freelance scientists’ assistance,
495

second crisis,
657
,
659–660
,
671–672

“semi-war” footing (1993),
486
,
491–492

O Baek-ryong (bodyguard chief; partisan),
239

Obuchi, Keizo,
636

O Guk-ryol (KPA general staff chief),
471

Oh Young-nam (State Security captain; defector),
505–507
,
547–548
,
691–692

O Jin-u, Marshal,
52
,
416
,
484
,
505
,
507

Kim Jong-il’s succession and,
277–278
,
293
,
491

family’s predicted role in any coup,
521

okwa
.
See
Mansions Special Volunteer Corps

old age and retirement,
159–160

O Mi-ran (actress),
319

one-man rule,
107

Paektu, Mount,
18

as holy mountain of revolution,
7
,
233
,
349

pilgrimages, tourism,
215

Paek Tu-chin (South Korean prime minister),
99

Pak Hon-yong (communist leader from the South),
55
,
72
,
82
,
95
,
213
,
301

Pak Nam-ki (chief economic planner),
660

Pak Pong-ju (prime minister),
663

Pak Song-chol (Kim Il-sung’s relative by

marriage; vice-president),
137
,
154
,
277
,
506

Pak Su-hyon (bodyguard; defector),
198
,
200
,
316
,
426–434

pangchang
.
See
music: opera

Park Chung-hee (South Korean president)

assassination of,
151

background in Japanese military,
121

calls for three-way peace talks,
150

as coup leader, major general,
120

human rights and democracy record,
148

as model for economic developers in North,
483
,
648
,
667
,
672–674

Park Geun-hye (daughter of Park Chunghee),
648

partisans (Manchuria guerrilla faction)

economic policies of,
120

educational deficiencies of,
96
,
107

loyalty to Kim Il-sung,
95–96

memoirs banned,
242

Panmunjom,
9
,
87
.
See also
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ);
Pueblo
incident

pellagra,
103
,
469

Peng Dehuai, Gen.,
92

Perry, William,
635
,
637
,
647

ping-pong diplomacy,
139–140

Pochonbo, battle of,
39–40
,
212
,
214

population,
139

relocation, mass,
112
,
232
,
294
,
408
,
544
,
626–627

police

function,
6

manpower,
262

See also
police state; Public Security; State Security

police state,
60
,
89
,
262

intensification under Kim Jong-il,
397

See also
Public Security; punishment; purges; State Security; surveillance

political offenders.
See
punishment; purges; surveillance

post–Korean War period (1950s),
93–119

Potemkin villages,
178
,
499
,
518–519

power, electric,
177

Kim Il-sung’s priority use of,
499–500

Pyongyang system modernized,
662

shortage,
295
,
329
,
345
,
503
,
638

and coal mines,
559
,
643

easing,
663

propaganda.
See
culture; indoctrination; Kim

Il-sung: personality cult of; Kim

Jong-il: personality cult of; news

media; subversion, of North Korea;

subversion, of South Korea

prostitution,
188
,
201
,
458
,
590
,
623

protest,
344–345
,
441
,
543
,
545–547
,
550
,
611

Public Security (police),
262
,
263–264
,
269
,
291

Pueblo
incident,
128–133
,
135
,
534

punishment,
290–304

banishment (internal exile),
290
,
293
,
294
,
298
,
301–302
,
557–558
,
614–615
,
616–628

without change in social class,
627

commitment to mental institution as,
589

demotion, for remaining dry-eyed after

Kim Il-sung’s death,
508

detention centers,
290–291

execution,
290

of accused spy for South Korea,
549

of agriculture minister,
575
,
624

of camp-inmate family for escape try,
609

of coup plotters, associates,
546

of defector attempting to rescue family members,
460

of exhumed corpse, ritual,
575

of father as little son watches,
301

of failed assassin,
695

for hearing gossip about Kim Jong-il’s private life,
687

of official’s wife, at drinking party, for criticizing Kim Jong-il,
287

of personality cult critics,
292

of political prison camp inmates,
299

public, suspended,
631

seen as alienating elite,
648

for sexual promiscuity,
201–202

of Southerners during Korean War,
89

of woman who told authorities she had slept with Kim Jong-il,
318

expulsion, from school or job,
290
,
377
,
429
,
432
,
574

house arrest,
293

political prisons and prison camps,
280
,
290–291
,
293–294
,
302–304
,
557–558
,
560
,
562–564
,
615

“destroy three generations of a family,”
290
,
572
,
607
,
609

experiments on prisoners,
604

families of spies who fail sent to,
541

guards’ testimony,
604–610

inmates’ testimony,
298–300
,
596–600

leniency to families of offenders, new policies,
416
,
572
,
617
,
631

prisoners released (1984–86),
589

production in,
562
,
615

short stature of inmates,
609

slow-death camps,
291
,
572
,
604

uniforms worn in,
562
,
609

prison, women’s,
616

prisons, ordinary,
291
,
329–330
,
562
,
611–613

reformatories (labor drill units),
291

revolutionary work classes,
574
,
580

purges,
293

of artists and literary people,
171
,
240–243

military

1969–1970, as succession maneuver,
277

1992, of military dissidents,
546
,
548
,
673

in 1950s,
94–96
,
106–107
,
109–111
,
292

thought examination committees in,
110

Pyongyang

capture of,
80

construction in,
119
,
295

controls on population and entry,
233
,
294
,
344
,
405
,
626–627

priority in distribution of goods, services, electricity,
449
,
499–500
,
576

rebuilding of, after Korean War,
93
,
96

retaking of,
83

showcase role,
295

transportation in,
2
,
177
,
494

radio, external broadcasts

pending congressional bills regarding,
677–678

receivers capable of tuning in,
6
,
368
,
379
,
423–424
,
431–432
,
495
,
496
,
522
,
526
,
601
(
see also
subversion, of North

Korea: balloon drops)

Radio Free Asia, Korean-language service,
297
,
379
,
385
,
392
,
401
,
407
,
454
,
455
,
496
,
522
,
526
,
601

South Korean,
310
,
368
,
385
,
390
,
406–407
,
420
,
422
,
424
,
432
,
570
,
584
,
600–602

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