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The official North Korean ideology is known as [[Juche]] (which roughly translates as "national self-reliance"), and since the mid 1990s, [[Songun]] ("military first"). A cult-like devotion to the "Great Leader" and "Dear Leader" is expected of citizens, and heavily promoted in the North Korean news media which has little actual news and mostly consists of effusive praise toward [[Kim Jong Un]], grandiose and unsubstantiated claims about great feats by him and his father, and repetitious admonitions that the Korean people are totally united as one behind his leadership. In contrast between 600,000 and 3.5 million North Koreans have died of starvation in recent years because the Kim government has so mismanaged the economy, particularly agriculture, and has hampered outside efforts at relief.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071009/COMMENTARY/110090010/1012&template=nextpage</ref>
The official North Korean ideology is known as [[Juche]] (which roughly translates as "national self-reliance"), and since the mid 1990s, [[Songun]] ("military first"). A cult-like devotion to the "Great Leader" and "Dear Leader" is expected of citizens, and heavily promoted in the North Korean news media which has little actual news and mostly consists of effusive praise toward [[Kim Jong Un]], grandiose and unsubstantiated claims about great feats by him and his father, and repetitious admonitions that the Korean people are totally united as one behind his leadership. In contrast between 600,000 and 3.5 million North Koreans have died of starvation in recent years because the Kim government has so mismanaged the economy, particularly agriculture, and has hampered outside efforts at relief.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071009/COMMENTARY/110090010/1012&template=nextpage</ref>
-1 out of 4 North Koreans suffer from malnutrition.
-Great levels of contamination due to nuclear tests.
-Individual freedoms completely passed over.
-There is no Internet.
-According to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2017, they are number 171 of 180 countries.
Communism in North Korea has already caused 4,600 deaths
The black book of communism figures in 2 million deaths because of North Korean communism. In the chapter devoted to that brutal dictatorship, he gives more detailed estimates:
90,000 deaths from executions for various reasons.
100,000 dead in the purges of the Labor Party.
1.5 million deaths in concentration camps between 1953 and 1998.
To this we must add those who are murdered when they try to flee the country, those killed by starvation (the black book of communism cites estimates of the German Red Cross which calculate 10,000 child deaths per month due to hunger in North Korea) and 500,000 killed by diseases and poor diet.
But we must remember that the black book of communism was published in 1997. In 1999, Pyongyang recognized 220,000 people killed by hunger since 1995 because of the floods that year. A report published in August 1999 by the United States Institute for Peace estimates the effects of that famine on between 2 and 3 million deaths. So, we could be talking about a total of 4.6 million deaths to date, and that without counting those of the Korean War of 1950-1953, caused by the North Koreans.
==People==
==People==