The Rise and Fall of Anti-Corruption in North Korea

IF 1.2 3区 社会学 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI:10.1017/jea.2021.38
Christopher Carothers
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Abstract North Korea is widely seen as having among the most corrupt governments in the world. However, the Kim family regime has not always been so accepting of government wrongdoing. Drawing on archival evidence, this study shows that Kim Il-sung saw corruption as a threat to economic development and launched campaigns to curb it throughout the 1950s. I find that these campaigns were at least somewhat successful, and they contributed to post-Korean War reconstruction and rapid development afterwards. So when and why did the regime shift from combating corruption to embracing it? I argue that changes in the country's economic system following the crisis of the 1990s, especially de facto marketization, made corruption more beneficial to the regime both as a source of revenue and as an escape valve for public discontent. This study's findings contribute to our understanding of the politics of corruption control in authoritarian regimes.
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朝鲜反腐败的兴衰
摘要朝鲜被广泛认为是世界上最腐败的政府之一。然而,金家族政权并不总是那么接受政府的不法行为。根据档案证据,这项研究表明,金日成将腐败视为对经济发展的威胁,并在整个20世纪50年代发起了遏制腐败的运动。我发现这些战役至少在一定程度上是成功的,它们为朝鲜战争后的重建和后来的快速发展做出了贡献。那么,这个政权何时以及为什么从打击腐败转向拥抱腐败呢?我认为,20世纪90年代危机后,该国经济体系的变化,特别是事实上的市场化,使腐败作为收入来源和公众不满的逃生阀,对政权更加有利。这项研究的发现有助于我们理解独裁政权中的腐败控制政治。
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Journal of East Asian Studies
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