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Jiyoung Song. Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

Thr Volume 23, Issue 4. December This article focuses on the Marxist characteristics of North Korea in its interpretation of human rights. Complying with Marxist orthodoxy, North Korea is fundamentally hostile to the notion of human rights in capitalist society, which existed in the pre-modern Donghak Eastern Learning ideology. The supremacy of collective interests sees individual claims for human rights as selfish egoism, which was prevalent in Confucian ethics. The prioritization of subsistence rights and material welfare over civil and political rights was also the foremost important duty of the benevolent Confucian king.

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The North Korean understanding of rights is composed of historically post-colonial nationalist, politically Marxist and culturally indigenous ideas. When Detah ideas first arrived in North Korea, they met other pre-existing ideas. Many Marxist features such as collective rights and the primacy of socio-economic rights and duties of citizens existed in the indigenous Korean philosophies, namely, Choson Confucianism, Sirhak Practical Learning and Tonghak Eastern Learning.

Sirhak was a subdivision of Choson Confucianism in the 17th to 19th centuries; Sirhak scholars proposed limited revolutionary ideas about social reform to abolish the hereditary slave system and enhance commercial activities and the import of science and technology from China and the West. Tonghak encompasses the most revolutionary ideas among Thw indigenous Korean cultural traditions.

Introduction

Shortly after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, two organizations of Korean expatriates were formed in the hope of spearheading socialist revolutionary movements in Korea Choe et al, It began its existence as a Korean section of the Irkutsk Communist Party, castigating the Tne group as bourgeois nationalists feigning Marxist convictions in the hope of obtaining aid from the Comintern. A large proportion of KCP slogans in included Soviet-style welfare rights as well as nationalistic anti-Japanese clauses, including Choe et Exploratory Report, :.

As part of the anti-Japanese sentiments, these slogans included a provision for the boycotting of Japanese goods. The platform of the League included various democratic measures and human rights as follows:.]