Global-South spaces are either overshadowed by global-North ideologies or deprived of agency in much of the scholarship on languaging and discourse.
"It is the regime's awareness of a pending legitimacy crisis, not a fear of attack from without, which makes it behave ever more provocatively on the world stage," B.R. Myers, a North Korea scholar at Dongseo University in South Korea, wrote in a 2010 book on North Korean ideology.
Unfortunately, the West seems determined to continue paying as little attention to North Korean ideology as possible.
Last month, her government won a Constitutional Court ruling that disbanded a small leftist party accused of following North Korean ideology.
With them has come a North American ideology that has advocated free-market economics, overseas market entry and, dare I say it, profit.
From this perspective, the English way is looked down on as empirical (a bad word just now), not only in Continental Europe but in some of the more prestigious cells of North American ideology.
To this day, North Korean ideology posits the unconditional reunification of the Korean people under an "independent socialist state" — and this presupposes the eradication of the existing government in South Korea.
In a separate lawsuit, the administration of South Korea's conservative president, Park Geun-hye, has called on the constitutional court to disband the party for promoting North Korean ideology.
PAGE A27 TO BEAT A DICTATOR, IGNORE HIM B. R. Myers, a researcher of North Korean ideology and propaganda at Dongseo University in South Korea, writes that the best way to undermine the regime of Kim Jong-is is to ignore his next missile test.
Because the North's ideology is also heavily ethnocentric, "it is easy to believe the whole world is against you, because the whole world is different from you," Gabroussenko added.
"North Korean ideology, experts suggest, has more in common with fascism than communism".
