[[North Korea]] is a repressive communist state where public religion is discouraged, and is an atheist state.<ref>Elizabeth Raum. ''North Korea''. Series: ''Countries Around the World''. Heinemann, 2012. ISBN 1432961330. p. 28: "North Korea is an atheist state. This means that people do not pray in public or attend places of worship. Buddhist temples exist from earlier times. They are now preserved as historic buildings, but they are not used for worship. A few Christian churches exist, but few people attend services. North Koreans do not celebrate religious holidays."</ref> The North Korean government practices brutal repression and atrocities against North Korean [[Christianity|Christians]],<ref>[http://www.nysun.com/article/23082?page_no=1 Korean Reds Targeting Christians]</ref> and all open religious activity in North Korea was persecuted and eradicated after [[Kim Il-sung]] took power, only to be revived in the present as part of a political show.<ref>Ryu, Dae Young (2006), "Fresh wineskins for new wine: a new perspective on North Korean Christianity", ''Journal of Church and State'' '''48''' (3).</ref>
[[Image:Lysenko.jpg|right|thumbnail|150px|[[Trofim Denisovich Lysenko]]]]
It has been estimated that in less than the past 100 years, governments under the banner of communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 and 259,432,000 human lives.<ref>Internet Archive:*Anticommunist (April 14, 2004). [http://dspaceweb.dialarchive.pipexorg/web/20130607125427/http://www.comindymedia.org.uk/en/2004/finalconflict04/fcrevb102289239.html "The Black Book Human Cost of Communism- 100 million"]. UK Indymedia. Retrieved from June 7, 2013 archive at Internet Archive.*[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/lelivrenoir.htm "''The Black Book of Communism''"]. Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences website: Cold War Studies.*Rummel, R. J. (November 1993). [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM HOW MANY DID COMMUNIST REGIMES MURDER"How many did communist regimes murder? By R.J. Rummel"] University of Hawaii website; Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War.*White, Matthew (February 2011). [http://users.erolsnecrometrics.com/mwhite28/warstat120c5m.htm "Source List list and Detailed Death Tolls detailed death tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysmprimary megadeaths of the twentieth century"]. Necrometrics.*Higgins, David (June 22, 2007). [http://web.archive.org/web/20071008035420/http://www.sarasotamagazine.com/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=365 "Memory and Ideologyideology: Washington's newest statue is the Victims Of Communism Memorial"]. Sarasota Magazine website. Retrieved from October 8, 2007 archive at Internet Archive.*Radosh, Ronald (February 2000). [http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2526 "''The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression''"]. First Things [journal] website.</ref> Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to communism is that communism caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.<ref>Rummel, R. J. (November 1993). [http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM HOW MANY DID COMMUNIST REGIMES MURDER"How many did communist regimes murder? By R.J. Rummel"] University of Hawaii website; Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War.</ref> [[Richard Dawkins]] has attempted to [[Richard Dawkins, atheists atrocities, and historical revisionism|engage in historical revisionism concerning atheist atrocities, but was shown to be in gross error]].
== Evolutionary belief and communism ==