북한정치의 종교적 특성과 ‘인간중심’ 개념

The Study on the Religious Characteristics and Human-centered Concept of North Korean Politics

This paper tries to analyze the process and its contents of the strongly formed religious characteristics in the North Korean political system. Therefore, I considered the emergence of Kim Il-sung, the process of acquiring state power, the substitution of Marxism-Leninism in Juche Ideology, and the process of completing the national system of Kim Il-sung s monolithic system. The “national division” of the Korean Peninsula is the background of the politicization of religion. Residents of the two Koreas, exposed to a long-term cease-fire, appear to be casual in their daily lives, but unconsciously can be seen as working on a war-related security defense mechanism. Studies have shown that North Koreans anxiety about separation from the North Korean regime. Therefore, they respond quickly to crises and cope with them. The politics of the two Koreas can be seen as an active use of this collective security defense mechanism to strengthen political power. An unconsciously operated security defense mechanism can be seen as forming a collective security defense system that responds quickly and actively to security and safety when the nation is in crisis. Such a collective security defense mechanism tends to be strengthened the more powerful it is, and through its policy of antagonizing the world s most powerful U.S., North Korea has completed its nuclear capabilities that have gathered all its national capabilities. Also, loyalty to the leader will be sanctified and easily antagonized by the refusal to recognize the North Korean regime. It can be said that the religious characteristics of North Korean politics are based on the human-centered concept of Juche Ideology. To dismantle the concept of human-centeredness formed in the religiousized political system of North Korea, the horizon of perception into subjects with universal human beings and their wills must be expanded. To be able to accept the human-centered philosophy and socialism of North Koreans in a unified country, it is necessary to dismantle the concept of “human” made in North Korea s religiousized politics and re-recognition of universal “human” and subject. This is because the unification of the concept of the “human center” of the two Koreas should precede. Besides, there is no free democratic country that can accommodate the Juche ideology without an individual ‘subject’.