...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...n diplomat who fled the regime's embassy in Kuwait said Pyongyang is quietly working toward restarting diplomacy with the United States, as Kim
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...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
enforces fiscal austerity across the government.
Ryu Hyeon-woo, Pyongyang's former acting ambassador to Kuwait, said in a recent interview with South Korean newspaper Donga Ilbo that North Korea has not given up on restoring diplomacy with Washington.
In July 2019, the regime's foreign ministry inaugurated a new department, Room 612, exclusively dedicated to talks. North Korean diplomats Ri Tae Song and Kim Myong Gil -- the latter the former ambassador to Vietnam -- are in charge, Ryu said.
Ryu defected to South Korea in September 2019, but his whereabouts were not disclosed until January.