ABSTRACT While the identity politics of North Korean defector-activists at home and abroad is revealed by unraveling the discursive complexity of their activism, little attention has been paid to the way in which that activism compromises the discursive dynamic of the defector community desiring to contest the power of a ruling paradigm within political culture. A critical analysis of North Korean defector balloon warriors who have crusaded against the North Korea regime through airborne leaflet drops at the South–North Korea border illustrates how their uncritical and unquestioned acceptance of liberal human rights can only leave the defector community vulnerable to charges of being politically-futile disparate citizens. The invocations of transnational liberal hegemonic norms obscure and undermine North Korean defectors’ agency of collective engagement in acts of liberal democratic citizenship. Understanding the propagandistic dimension of their dissenting voices can help expand the scope of analysis of liberal democratic posthumanitarian citizenship.

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朝鲜人权活动的气球战士：对朝鲜叛逃活动家后人道主义主义的批判

摘要 虽然通过解开他们激进主义的话语复杂性揭示了国内外的朝鲜脱北者-激进主义者的身份政治，但很少有人关注这种激进主义如何损害渴望与朝鲜抗争的脱北者社区的话语动力。政治文化中统治范式的力量。对在韩朝边境通过空降传单反对朝鲜政权的脱北者气球战士的批判性分析说明了他们对自由人权的不加批判和毫无疑问的接受只会使脱北者社区容易受到指控政治上徒劳的不同公民。对跨国自由霸权规范的援引模糊和破坏了朝鲜叛逃者集体参与自由民主公民行为的机构。了解他们反对声音的宣传维度有助于扩大对自由民主后人道主义公民身份的分析范围。