The Organizational Life: Daily Surveillance and Daily Resistance in North Korea | Journal of East Asian Studies | Cambridge Core

The Organizational Life: Daily Surveillance and Daily Resistance in North Korea | Journal of East Asian Studies | Cambridge Core




The Organizational Life: Daily Surveillance and Daily Resistance in North Korea
Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov, In-ok Kwak and Choong-Bin Cho


DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1598240800007839
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2016


Extract


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.