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North Korea Research
North Korea Research
North Korea Research
North Korea is a place that supports dictatorship and it lacks basic human rights.
Political systems
~totalitarianism
~dictatorship
~Juche (ideology emphasizes North Korea's political, economic, and military
self-reliance.)
~Songun (military first policy)
Leader: Kim
● 1945 - Japan's colonial rule over Korea ends with its Second World War
surrender.
● 1948 - Korea is divided between the Soviet-backed North and the US-backed
South.
● 1994 - Founding President Kim Il-sung dies, succeeded by his son Kim
Jong-il.
● 2002 - US names North Korea as part of an "axis of evil" in a stand-off
between the West and North Korea which lasts for decades.