Which communism is North Korea adhering to?
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North Korea is adopting a brand new kind of communism, rarely seen since the Chinese empires of the 1300's.\n\nThey are communist, but they are taking the road of total isolation. They want to be strong, but they don't want anyone else involved in their country. They are hard lined Stalinist, but are taking a different path.\n\nNorth Korea continues to be a enigma of the modern world.
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Kim Jong Il of North Korea - the nuclear arms architect
1109957
You are thinking of Korea - which is divided into North and South.  North being communist and South which is a Republic.\n\nVietnam has 5 municipalities (Can Tho, Da Nang, Hai Phong, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh) united as one Communist state.
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The principal goal was to stop the spread of communism to South Korea.  Under the Truman Doctrine, President Trumans declared that the U.S. was willing to assist any free nation that was faced with communist aggression.  The South Koreans were invaded by North Korea and the United Nations passed a resolution authorizign UN troops to deploy ot stop the invasion.  The goal in stopping communism from taking hold in the south was achieved, however, the theory that came from this noble idea - the domino theory (which essentially was the belief that if one country fell to communism, then other countries in the regio would fall like dominoes) paved the way for American intervention in another southeast Asian nation about decade later, and with disastrous results - Vietnam.
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One way to structure an answer is to look at the resources the United States had and now has to deter Communism abroad. During the Cold War vitually our entire military capability was focused on deterring the Communist threat to the U.S.  Today in spite of 1.5 Communist nuclear equipped countries (China 1.0, N. Korea .5), virtually none of our defense budget is directed against this "threat".  Economic globilization has (since the wall came down in Germany) and will continue to "protect our six" from Communism
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Kim Il-sung (15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the leader of North Korea from its founding in 1948 until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death, although his real power came from his position as General Secretary of the Korean Workers' Party. North Korea officially refers to him as the "Great Leader" and he is designated in the constitution as the country's "Eternal President." His birthday and the day of his death are public holidays in North Korea.\n\n\nHe convinced Stalin to let him Invade South Korea in 1950, he told Stalin that the US would not help. 56 years later, the DMZ is still here and so is the threat of War.
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The short answer is that China is still communist because that's the system that works best for them. There are several brands of communism. Despite what many people believe, all communists are not the same. China's brand of communism is not the same as Russia's brand of communism was. \nWhat is really going to be interesting is to see what happens now that China is becoming a capitalistic country (just take a look at where most of the goods you buy are produced) and with what is happening inside China itself. \nIn Beijing, for example, ten years ago the bicycle was the main way of getting around. When we were there, it was hard to believe the number of bikes we saw, and the number of people and the amount of goods that could be piled on one Pigeon (the trade name of China's most popular bike). Now that the economy is allowing personal wealth, there is a great deal of interest in private motor vehicles. Just think for a moment of the impact that will have! Unless they jump directly into a non-fossil fuel technology, you will have the potential for a billion more cars spewing fumes into the atmosphere, a screaming world wide shortage of gas and oil, and incredible traffic jams in the major cities. \nAh, yes. We live in interesting times!
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North Korea likes to shout about having nukes, although the reality is that they probably don't have anything of significance in terms of a weapon. They have never tested any bombs and many analysts believe that their stance is a bluff designed to extract concessions from the rest of the World. They are a corrupt, piss-poor, 3rd World country ruled by a dictator. North Korea is a bankrupt state with more than 50% of its population living below the starvation line, whilst South Korea is a prosperous country with a growing economy. North Korea needs money to prop itself up, in much the same way as the Soviet Union needed cash to keep itself afloat (hence its eventual collapse).\n\nIran on the other hand is ruled by fanatical Muslims who frequently state that Israel should be wiped from the face of the Earth, and that all infidels i.e. non-Muslims should be converted to Islam or killed.\n\nThey do not seek to obtain nuclear weapons in order to defend themselves or to use as a bargaining tool, but to strike out at other countries which are non-Muslim.\n\nTherefore, there is a major difference between North Korea, which is a shaky country, but one which simply wants cash from the West in order to keep its economy going, and the likes of Iran which wants the bomb to intimidate or even to use against its "enemies". That is why Iran is such a danger to the civillised World.
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We have been in conflict with North Korea since the war ended. No peace treaty was ever signed. Just a cease-fire. We support South Korea. And one of the stated goals of North Korea is to take back the south. They are also developing (we think) nuclear weapons. We do not want anyone who does not like us to have this type of weapon.
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Do you even know what the words 'communist' and 'regime'  mean?
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There are many communist (China, N Korea, Cuba) and socialist countries (Sweden, Russia, France) where your ideas and assistance would be appreciated. Forgive me if I don't rush out in a lather to follow in your wake.
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pure d Communism, whats this world coming to? HAND have a nice day!
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Not sure what communists you are referring to... the only options are Cuba, China and N.Korea.\n\nOf those, I don't know of any S.American takeovers in the works.\n\nMaybe you are referring to some non-communists movements in those areas... btw, there are quite a few.\n\nWhile we have been focusing on Islamic nations and obsessed with muslim extremists, the rest of the world has been very busy committing some unspeakable atrocities.
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The correct answer is B) The promise of a Soviet occupation zone in Korea.\n\nThe USSR secretly agreed to enter the war against Japan within three months of Germany's surrender and was promised S Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and an occupation zone in Korea.
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The war in Korea. Today 50 years later Korea is still a country divided and the Communist North is the largest threat to nuclear war in the world today.\nThe war in Vietnam. Before the war only North Vietnam was Communist. Today 40 years later all of Vietnam is under Communist rule.\n(For those that say these were not wars but only police actions, tell that to the tens of thousands of troops that died there)\nAlthough you didn't ask the next war the USA will lose is the war in Iraq.
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North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung, was not merely a dreary Stalinist tyrant. As defectors from his country will tell you, he was also a popular anti-Japanese guerrilla leader in the mold of Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist tyrant of Albania who led his countrymen in a successful insurgency against the Nazis. Nor is his son Kim Jong Il anything like the childish psychopath parodied in the film Team America: World Police. It’s true that Kim Jong Il was once a playboy. But he has evolved into a canny operator.\n\nAnd Kim is hardly impulsive: he has the equivalent of think tanks studying how best to respond to potential attacks from the United States and South Korea—attacks that themselves would be reactions to crises cleverly instigated by the North Korean government in Pyongyang.\n\nIn other divided countries of the twentieth century—Vietnam, Germany, Yemen—the forces of unity ultimately triumphed. But history suggests that unification does not happen through a calibrated political process in which the interests of all sides are respected. Rather, it tends to happen through a cataclysm of events that, piles of white papers and war-gaming exercises notwithstanding, catches experts by surprise. \n\nIn fact, what terrifies South Koreans more than North Korean missiles is North Korean refugees pouring south. The Chinese, for their part, have nightmare visions of millions of North Korean refugees heading north over the Yalu River into Manchuria.\n\nKim Jong Il learned a powerful lesson by watching the fall of the Ceausescu Family Regime, in Romania: Take utter and complete control of the military.\n\nOf course, South Korea would bear the brunt of the economic and social disruption in returning the peninsula to normalcy. No official will say this out loud, but South Korea—along with every other country in the region—has little interest in reunification, unless it were to happen gradually over years or decades. The best outcome would be a South Korean protectorate in much of the North, officially under an international trusteeship, that would keep the two Koreas functionally separate for a significant period of time. This would allow each country time to prepare for a unified Korean state, without the attendant chaos.
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Communism = From each, according to ability.  To each, according to need. (Everyone works; he who needs, gets.)\n\nSocialism = From each, according to ability.  To each, according to deeds. (Everyone works, he who works harder or better or smarter gets more)