“Juche” Government
As countries in today’s world are becoming more globalized, one country, North Korea, has stayed and moved in the complete opposite direction since it was divided in 1948. North Korea, described by many as a totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship, but is officially deemed as a “socialist republic” state, is one of five remaining communist states and one of only two remaining countries that have an almost entirely government planned, state-owned economy.
For instance, “Economic plans in North Korea are drawn out, supervised and implemented under the unitary system centered around the State Planning Committee and passed down to the provincial, municipal and district levels to the factories and small businesses. Each region has a General Bureau of Provincial Industry to take care of all production, sales, and management of resources” (Joon).
The reason behind North Korea being one of the only governments that still have an entirely state-owned economy is because of the political ideology of a “Juche” government policy created by Kim II Sung, former prime minister, which the term “Juche” means “self reliance”. This means almost everything that they do is self relied upon. They produce their own crops, use their own natural resources, and etc. This type of isolationism has led North Koreas foreign policies to be minimal with other countries. In fact, the only strong relationships that North Korea has are with China and Russia, but more recently, it has only been with China. “China's share of North Korea's foreign trade rose to 73 percent in 2008, up from 33 percent in 2003. China also provides about half the aid received by the North, as well as vital energy supplies” (Richardson). However, North Korea’s for...
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Last class, we were disusing the creation of a dystopia society, in which North Korea may be represented as one. Nevertheless, the argument could not be unified to neither yea nor nay. Some classmates thought that North Korea is a two-sided nation where the people in power live in a utopia and the common citizens live in a dystopia. On the other hand, some argued that it is a total dystopia. The last thought was that this country can be considered a utopia because of its successful communist establishment.
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Christopher Hitchens makes a great observation about the state of North Korea today, and what he saw is just what is shown to the public. It is more than likely impossible for the west to know the way that the world works for the North Korean Proles. Totalitarian states use two methods to control the people. Propaganda, and fear. Propaganda works the best in a mostly closed system, like North Korea, because of the way they can’t see if the government is lying about the outside world. When the government says “Our neighbors have it worse, they only has one pound of rice a month” the people have no reason to doubt it, and they be happy with their two pounds. North Korea is a great example of this because the government teaches the people that all of the other countries in the surrounding are jealous of the North Korean people’s hard work and food amount. The North Korean government carefully developed a cult of personality around their leaders Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il, and currently Kim- Jong-Un. Recently there was a case of a fourteen year old girl dying in a flood trying to save a pi...
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North Korea could be described as a dystopian society. For all of its citizens, the Internet is widely monitored and restricted, allowing only limited access. “One could speculate that it is more propaganda about the country, its leaders, or negative coverage about the US.... ... middle of paper ... ...
The government main goal is to implement “effective control” over “perfect control”, which prohibits the internet access or allows filtered intranet. The effective control allows a wide internet access by the people but that content is monitored and censored by the government. In order to do this North Korean government developed separate technologies and devices as inspired by Chinese government. After implementing this type of internet for users, government is hoping that they can manipulate the country politically and at the same time having a decent economy. After doing this North Korea government gradually moving towards wider implementation of internet access by implementing defined security technology and now a days government open offers Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and is able to get foreign investors from different countries and running towards developing its economy
In North Korea: A Country Study, the economy of North Korea is, “Traditionally socialized, centrally planned, and primarily industrialized command economy isolated from rest of world.” The World Factbook says that the economy is 47% industry, 31%services, and 22%
Moreover, according to the same theory, relations among states are derived primarily by their level of power, which constitutes basically their military and economic capability, and in pursuit of the national security states strive to attain as many resources as possible. The theoretical model explains thus why the nuclear issue has eventually resulted in identifying with a security one, meaning that North Korea main concern is to assure its survivor, its efforts are in the first place finalized at meeting that target and its only means of pursuing it consists of the posing of the nuclear threat. North Korea finds itself stuck in an economic and, to some extent, diplomatic isolation; even though the financial sanctions leading to the just mentioned critical conditions have been caused by the government inflexible, aggressive and anti-democratic behavior, the regime has no other choice than restate and strengthen its strict and, apparently, definitive positions to ensure its survivor, since at the moment any concession or move toward a more liberal approach breaking the countrys isolation could easily cause a collapse of the whole system.... ... middle of paper ...
To understand this situation more fully, one must be given some background, starting in the early 1950s. Due to the harsh differences between the peoples of Korea, and especially due to the onset of Communism, the Korean War erupted and the nation split in half, with the Communist-supported Democratic People’s Republic in the north and those who favored democracy in the Korean Republic of the south (Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000). The two separate countries of North Korea and South Korea went their opposite ways, and each has experienced different fortunes in the past half-century. The South Koreans managed to recover from the turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s to become an economic power and a democracy supporter. On the other hand, North Korea can be viewed as a retro country, based first on a Communist ideology, laid down by leader Kim Il Sung and inherited by his son, the current dictator Kim Jong Il, then evolving into a totalitarian state (Pacific Rim: East Asia at the Dawn of a New Century). Today North Korea holds the distinction of being one of the very few remaining countries to be truly cut off from the rest of the world. Author Helie Lee describes this in her novel In the Absence of Sun: “An eerie fear crawled through my flesh as I stood on the Chinese side of the Yalu River, gazing across the murky water into one of the most closed-off and isolated countries in the world.” (1)