Talk:North Koreaball/@comment-5211495-20170228104919/@comment-4425142-20170301104647

As stated in TVTropes, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is one big lie in name:

-it isn't democratic

-it is not for the people, nor was it a communist people's state (although Juche was originally conceived as a Korean variant of Marxism-Leninism)

-it isn't a republic (seeing as the head of state is a dead man and the ruling family is a monarchy in all but name)

-it doesn't cover all of Korea, although by their own official stance, the North Korean regime claims to be governing the whole of Korea (the same can be said for its southern neighbor).

Besides, the North Korean government do not see South Korea as an nation and according to their logic, it is a puppet government of the United States. They also claimed Japan to be the oppressors during the colonial era and sees Israel as an imperialist satellite state of USA, although their hostile relations cannot be explained very easily outside of the fact that the North Korean regime maintains a far-left image (doubt it is since they're extremely nationalist and xenophobic) who is opposed to apartheid, thus rooting the Arab nations over it .

Moreover, Juche (according to my theory) is not a real ideology but more of a tool used to deceive foreigners, and the civilians not being permitted to watch foreign nations (even if it's from communist countries) complicates the matter. That's why it is a hermit kingdom.