Is North Korea a communist or democratic?

Answer 1

Between those two options, the answer is COMMUNIST. However, North Korea has officially claimed that it is no longer Communist and is strictly "Juche". Regardless, the regime maintains a Dictatorial Apparatus that appears to be much more similar to Communist regimes than Democratic regimes.

Answer 2

North Korea is (factually) a Dictatorship, but the question is not asking whether North Korea is or is not a dictatorship, but how North Korea considers itself, which is a far more interesting and convoluted question.

North Korea calls itself as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, seeing itself as democracy.

The term "democratic people's republic" is commonly associated with communism and comes from the idea that the dictatorship of any given communist state is really made of people who are representatives of the proletariat workers. They are "normal people" who are the forerunners of the civilization and bringing their brothers and sisters up to speed education-wise, behavior-wise, and economically. So this proletariat leadership is "democratic" since it is rule by the "emissaries of the people" (even though these people are never elected). It is a "republic", since the authority is vested in members who have no hereditary right to power (even though in North Korea, the system is actually hereditary). It is a "people's government", since the proletariat leadership represents the will of the people (even though the individual citizens have no say in the leadership). By the magic of redefining words by ideology, the term "democratic people's republic" which includes a number of words that indicate a non-hereditary, human rights-abiding country where people vote for their representatives for set terms, you create a hereditary, human rights-violating country where a nobility is in power for as long as they live.

Answer 3

Democracy is not a Ideology but a form of government. The answer is neither. North Korea is a Autocracy and follows Juche not Communism.

Answer 4

North Korea is a Communist Country run along the Stalinist lines of communism. Though true communist ideology is democratic, Stalinism runs contradictory to this in many ways

Answer 5

A quick rule of thumb when looking at country names: Any country with the word "Democratic" in its official name is a communist country.

Answer 6

It is now, but it wasn't at the time of the Korean War.

Answer 7

No, that's South Korea.

Answer 8

yes