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It may call itself Communist, but Kim Jong-il is so off his rocker that I don't think he even knows what kind of country NK is anymore. It is "whatever Kim Jong-il decides to call it today"-ism.
And anyway... it has deviated far from Communism. The ruling class lives in paradisaical luxury in a fashion far removed from the every day realities of the nation, while everyone else has to catch grains of rice spilling from the goods train that is headed to one of various palaces. Last time I checked, that's not what collectivization and equal distribution looks like.
You'll notice that any east Asian nation that adopted communism has simply become a modern remake of the imperial dynasties. Emperors, in other words.
And anyway... it has deviated far from Communism. The ruling class lives in paradisaical luxury in a fashion far removed from the every day realities of the nation, while everyone else has to catch grains of rice spilling from the goods train that is headed to one of various palaces. Last time I checked, that's not what collectivization and equal distribution looks like.
You'll notice that any east Asian nation that adopted communism has simply become a modern remake of the imperial dynasties. Emperors, in other words.