North Korea soon gradually recovered from the war and followed the next twenty years of growth and prosperity.īy the 1970s, North Korea entered a period of economic and technological growth. The postwar aftermath resulted in North Korea abandoning its communist ideology and progressively embraced a free market economy. Originally established as a communist state following the end of World War II, North Korea began the Korean War which resulted in its defeat in 1953. By 2015, Kim Jong-un succeeded in his objective and incorporated North Korea into the Greater Korean Republic. These reforms includes the dismantlement of the Korean Demilitarized Zone and the release of prisoners from the labor camps in which international aid groups were allowed to provide relief to the recovering nation. Unprecedentedly, the younger Kim was astutely aware of North Korea's global standing in which he initiated a radical series of reforms in an effort to re-engage with the world and peacefully reunite North Korea with South Korea. įollowing the death of Kim Jong-il in 2012, he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un. However, under the reign of Kim Jong-il, millions of North Koreans suffered from deadly famines resulting from Kim Jong-il's brutal policies and the government was forced to accept food aid from the outside and implement a number of market reforms. The North Korean government promoted the state ideology of Juche, which endorsed North Korean political, economic and military self-reliance, and cementing the cult of personality of the Kim family. Since North Korea's development of nuclear weapons in 2006, numerous nations imposed sanctions against North Korea. North Korea was notoriously known for its human rights abuse in which the population are strictly managed by the state and citizens perceived as disloyal to the state are deported to labor camps without trial.

The nation was ruled by the Kim family, descending from the country's first leader Kim Il-sung to the present day leader Kim Jong-un. North Korea was widely viewed by the world as an authoritarian totalitarian hereditary dictatorship and a rogue state.

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