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Now my thoughts are to turn North Korea Leak into a more up to date and perhaps more functional website – perhaps a website with a front-end and also forums so we can discuss North Korea topics.

I’ll do this by demand – if you’re as interested as I am (hopefully I’m not the only one that’s interested in DPRK issues) then please respond to this post in a comment to show your support!

North Korea is a country in the East of Asia, on the Korean peninsula, and is parrallel to South Korea. North Korea and South Korea were torn apart after the collapse of Imperialist Japan during World War 2 and the bitter Korean War. The Soviet Union and China extended it’s influence to the North of Korea and the United States undertook the mandate to the South, which remains the same to this day on the US part, however North Korea’s allies almost all went with the Soviet Union and China’s growing capitalist stance.

North Korea can be summarised as a stalinist, communist, and heavily militarised totalitarian dictatorship that enforces a harsh draconian control over it’s population through tight control and manipulation of the media and maintains a personality cult surrounding the leadership to make them seem Godly and eternal, which keeps the populace generally naive to the outside world or thinking thing’s that would be considered against the country or it’s leaders.

Along the border between North and South Korea, the DMZ scars the landscape with barbed wire, mines and an immense military build-up on both sides, especially on the North which has over a million man army ready to invade and hurl devastating artillery and missiles toward South Korean military targets and cities (notably Seoul, the South Korean capital. North Korea has previously said it would turn Seoul “into a sea of fire”).

Despite their political contrasts and cultural divides, North and South Korea have one goal in mind; reunification. If the Korea’s were to reunify successfully, they’d become a major world power with the world’s largest military. However, ever changing political stances towards North Korea in South Korea and a stubborn North Korea shroud the idea of reunification as a prospect for the distant future.

North Korea pursues it’s ‘Juche’ ideology, which basically means that it aims to be self-sufficient without foreign imports. The DPRK also follows a strict ‘military-first’ policy, where the military gets more priority over the general population.

In a nut shell, North Korea is a country that is alone in the world with it’s political ideologies and the countries ’self-reliant’ ‘military-first’ stubbornness does not fit in the modern world. North Korea’s goal is to reunify with South Korea whilst maintain it’s political ideologies. Seeing as South Korea is a fully modern and democratic country that is one of the most powerful and fastest growing economies in the world and the recent president’s persistant non-relaxing attitude towards North Korea makes the future of a graceful reunification of Korea look more unlikely and there’s an interesting path for North and South Korea to follow – but whether they follow it correctly or greater divide each other remains to be seen.

North Korea Leak will follow this and provide input and analysis on future developments.