{"id":3810,"date":"2024-04-15T20:45:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T20:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2025-01-23T20:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:54:14","slug":"analysis-on-political-and-economic-situation-in-north-korea-after-the-8th-congress-of-the-workers-party-of-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/?p=3810&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Analysis on Political and Economic Situation in North Korea after the 8th Congress of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Analysis on Political and Economic Situation in North Korea after the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Congress of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Li Chengri<sup data-fn=\"cdf08740-97c9-42b7-bc05-3a5392d497a8\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#cdf08740-97c9-42b7-bc05-3a5392d497a8\" id=\"cdf08740-97c9-42b7-bc05-3a5392d497a8-link\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/71wpk-x-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/71wpk-x-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/71wpk-x-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/71wpk-x-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/71wpk-x-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/71wpk-x.jpg 1937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(16.834px, 1.052rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.716), 26px);\"><strong>[Abstract] <\/strong>In January 2021, the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Congress of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea was held in Pyongyang. The congress fully summarized a five-year strategy for the national economic development for 2016-2020, charted out a new five-year plan for the national economic development, and further consolidated the leadership of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The WPK identified \u201cthe People-First Principle\u201d and the economic construction policy of \u201cSelf-Reliance\u201d. A series of messages delivered at the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Congress of the WPK will determine the basic directions of the political, economic, party-building, and foreign relations policies of North Korea for the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(16.834px, 1.052rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.716), 26px);\"><strong>[Key Words] <\/strong>The 8<sup>th<\/sup> Congress of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea; The five-year plan for the national economic development; The People-First Principle; Self-Reliance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(16.834px, 1.052rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.716), 26px);\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(16.834px, 1.052rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.716), 26px);\">The 8<sup>th<\/sup> Congress of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (hereinafter referred to as \u201cWPK\u201d) was held in Pyongyang from January 5 to January 12, 2021. The congress was held in the context of the stalled peace process on the Korean Peninsula since the failure of the North Korean and U.S. summit in Hanoi in February 2019, the change of the U.S. administration in 2021, and severe impact on the North Korean economy under multiple pressures such as international sanctions, COVID-19, and floods. The congress fully summarized the five-year strategy for the national economic development for 2016-2020, charted out a new five-year plan, and set domestic and foreign affairs goals. The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended and offered guidance at the congress in person. He also delivered an important speech and made significant conclusions. A series of messages delivered at the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Congress of the WPK will determine the basic directions of the political, economic, party-building, and foreign relations policies of North Korea for the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong><span style=\"color: var(--theme-palette-color-2, #cc3333);\" class=\"stk-highlight\">Please Download for Full Text<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-bd52ac39-cb12-4e35-b16d-66c9e4c0d250\" href=\"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/kailin-sosy-kitabi-12-korea-2.docx\">kailin-sosy-kitabi-12-korea-2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/kailin-sosy-kitabi-12-korea-2.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-bd52ac39-cb12-4e35-b16d-66c9e4c0d250\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<ol style=\"font-size:clamp(16.834px, 1.052rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.716), 26px);\" class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"cdf08740-97c9-42b7-bc05-3a5392d497a8\">Li Chengri is a research associate of the National Institute of International Strategy, attached to CASS <a href=\"#cdf08740-97c9-42b7-bc05-3a5392d497a8-link\" aria-label=\"Dipnot ba\u015fvurusuna atla 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis on Political and Economic Situation in North Korea after the 8th Congress of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea Li Chengri [Abstract] In January 2021, the 8th Congress of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea was held in Pyongyang. The congress fully summarized a five-year strategy for the national economic development for 2016-2020, charted out a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Li Chengri is a research associate of the National Institute of International Strategy, attached to CASS\",\"id\":\"cdf08740-97c9-42b7-bc05-3a5392d497a8\"}]"},"categories":[31,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-en","category-english-en","category-socialism-en"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksizm.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}