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 balanca is represented in the borderline between North Korea (fully continental power) and South Korea (fully Sea Power) under absolute control of the West.
China, Russia
USA, NATO, West, Southern Korea, Japan
the rest of local powers
Unification of Korean Peninsula under the control of North Korea (socialst - juche) solution.
Claims on the terrotory of Southern Korea
almost homogenous Korean ethnos
atheism
small groups of taoists and continuators of ancient chamanist traditions
Korean
socialist juche type of national unity
absent
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
national industrialization
agriculture
unification of Korean Peninsula relying on developpment of autonomous nuclear power
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)
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