The Totalitarianism that is North Korea
Michael Kleen writes: North Korea is recognized as being one of the most oppressive totalitarian states in the world.
Yet in fact, North Korea has a constitution and holds regular elections with three competing political parties—the Workers’ Party of Korea , the Korean Social Democratic Party, and the Chondoist Chongu Party—all united under an organization called the “Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland”.
In April 2009, North Korea even revised its constitution to include Article 8 which reads, “The State respects and protects the human rights of the workers, peasants and working intellectuals …”
But just because a state maintains the structures and language of democracy and continues to have elections does not preclude it from being totalitarian.
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