North Korea

Korea is a historical country in East Asia, since 1945 divided into two distinct sovereign states: North Korea (officially the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea") and South Korea (officially the "Republic of Korea"). Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan (East Sea).

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Geopolitical profile

Geopolitical position:

Position on the geopolitical map:

The country belongs to Rimland. Is the space of historical fight between Land Power (Turan, Altaic peoples, Russia) and Sea Power (Western colonial countries).

During cold war was the zone of violent struggle between soviet camp and Western capitalist camp. Tthe result of that was division of Korea on two halfs -- Northern socialist Republic and Southern capitalist State.

Geopolitical balance:

Geopolitical balanca is represented in the borderline between North Korea (fully continental power) and South Korea (fully Sea Power) under absolute control of the West.

Main geopolitical allies:

China, Russia

Opponents:

USA, NATO, West, Southern Korea, Japan

Neutrality:

the rest of local powers

Sphere of national interest.:

Unification of Korean Peninsula under the control of North Korea (socialst - juche) solution.

International disputes:

Claims on the terrotory of Southern Korea

Ethnosociology:

Ethnical structure:

almost homogenous Korean ethnos

Religious structure:

atheism

small groups of taoists and continuators of ancient chamanist traditions

Languages:

Korean

Ethnical identity:

Korean

Nationlal_identity:

socialist juche type of national unity

Individual (Civil Society):

absent

Ethnic map:

Political Ideology:

Political schema :

Juche - special purely Korean type of marxism. Developped by Kim Il-sung (1912–1994)

Juche mixes the historical materialist ideas of Marxism–Leninism with the values of the nation State and its sovereignty.

F form of Korean ethnic nationalism with special central stryctural and historic role plyed by the Kim family as the saviours of the "Korean Race"

A kind of national-bolshevism.

Unlike the Joseon dynasty, where there was a huge gap between the upper and lower classes, North Korea had adopted the concept of a gathered-together "people". Instead of a strict social hierarchy, North Korea had, in theory, divided the union into three classes — peasant, worker and samuwon (intellectuals and professionals), where each was just as important as the other. The samuwon class consisted of clerks, small traders, bureaucrats, professors and writers. This was a unique class that was created in order to increase the education and literacy of North Korea's population.

Normally, Communist nations would value only the farmers or laborers, thus in the USSR the intelligentsia was not defined as an independent class of its own, but rather as a "social stratum" that recruited itself from members of almost all classes: proletariat, petite bourgeoisie, and bourgeoisie. However, a "peasant intelligentsia" was never mentioned. Correspondingly, the "proletarian intelligentsia" was exalted for bringing forth progressive scientists and Marxist theoreticians, whereas the "bourgeois intelligentsia" was condemned for producing "bourgeois ideology", which were all non-Marxist worldviews. Language reforms followed revolutions more than once, such as the New Korean Orthography in North Korea (which failed, due to Korean ethnic nationalist fears of precluding Korean unification), or the simplification of Chinese characters under Mao (a consequence of the divergent orthographic choices of Taiwan and the People's Republic of China), or the simplification of the Russian language after the 1917 revolution in Russia and consequent struggle against illiteracy, known in Soviet Russia as Likbez (Likvidaciya Bezgramotnosti, liquidation of illiteracy).

They believed in rapid industrialization through labor and in subjecting nature to human will. By restructuring social classes into a mass of people who are theoretically all equal, the North Korean government claimed it would be able to attain self-reliance or Juche in upcoming years. This is questionable, because the country suffers massive food shortages annually and is heavily dependent on foreign aid

Geoeconomy:

Economical descriprtion:

national industrialization

agriculture

Geostrategy:

Geostrategy description:

unification of Korean Peninsula relying on developpment of autonomous nuclear power

Values structure:

Marginal notes:

three fundamental principles of Juche:

political independence (Chosŏn'gŭl: 자주; Hancha: 自主; RR: jaju; MR: chaju)
economic self-sustenance (Chosŏn'gŭl: 자립; Hancha: 自立; RR: jarip; MR: charip)
self-reliance in defence (Chosŏn'gŭl: 자위; Hancha: 自衛; RR: jawi; MR: chawi)

Transnational organizations:

Transnational description:

ONU

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