Rhetorical Analysis

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Charles K. Armstrong argues that the ruling ideology of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a Marxist-Leninist socialist that is influenced by Stalinism and the Maoists. (2006, p383) At the same time, Armstrong Support the ideology of DPRK was often expressed even through family relations after the mid-1960s. Primarily it is influenced by the sympathy of filial piety and maternal love in East Asia or Confucianism. In the early days of this regime, the DPRK described itself as part of the socialist state and the Soviet Union was being seen as the leader of macro-family. However, with the emergence of the guiding political principles of North Korea in the 1960s, "self-reliance," macro-family units almost entirely turned to (North) …show more content…
In the rhetoric of the conventional concept of the DPRK, the North Korean state became the collective manifestation of the nuclear family and existed in the same self-sufficient family and state unit of the world. Edward Banfield says that is different from the "unethical family doctrine" described in the classic study: "an ethos that determines, or at least justifies, much of how North Korean society operates internally and interacts with the outside world." (Banfield, …show more content…
Pinto. (2016) On the system of the public dictatorship of political domination and control of his research highlights some of the main features. Pinto states that regardless of ideological differences and classifications: Violence against citizens, political repression and coercion, and integration of the system. This kind of methodology ignores the differences and sub-types of ideological: violence toward citizens, political suppression, and institutions of coercion and integration. It has been argued several times by western researchers. Such like Svolik's study, it also provides the support of "dictatorship in the dictatorship of politics is the ultimate arbiter of a permanent conflict and the ultimate authoritarian political conflict," shaping the tyranny of political behavior (Svolik 2012). Power is still the core feature of dictatorship, fear, violence, intimidation, and surveillance is the essence of political rule and rights. Even at the elite and the mass