North Korea: An anachronistic system 
Cuando analizamos el final de la Guerra Fría se suele dar por concluida a principios de los años 90 del siglo XX: gracias a la caída del muro de Berlín (1989) y la desaparición de los regímenes comunistas que conformaban el bloque soviético, en especial la desitegración de la propia URSS; sin embargo, en pleno siglo XXI aún pervive un conflicto latente heredero de las relaciones internacionales que marcaron la segunda mitad del siglo pasado, nos referimos a las tensiones nucleares en Corea del Norte.
The Stalinist regime that remains in North Korea takes us back over 50 years of history that even if certain peculiarities remains huge similarities with the Soviet Union of Josef Stalin's time and continues to position its own international policy block, as its nuclear obsession, paranoia of external threat and the continual demonstrations of military power, as the last missile (
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The origin of this area of \u200b\u200bconflict in East Asia is to be found at the end of World War 2 in 1945, after Japan's defeat and occupation of the Korean peninsula by the two superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union) to star in the so-called Cold War
. The distribution of influence around the parallel 38 º set two states, North supported by the USSR and then, since 1949, also the China of Mao Zedong and the south under a dictatorship supported by the U.S. president Harry Truman. Soon the two Koreas staged the first of indirect confrontation between communist and capitalist blocs, is called
Korean War (1950-1953) that after reaching an armistice not only changed the situation, despite the destruction and loss of lives, never came to establish a lasting peace.
Picture of Great Leader Kim Il Sung Image " daddy" Stalin
; Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was founded during the reign of Kim Il Sung
through the creation of a repressive state following a Stalinist policy, characterized by the framework of the masses and social strict discipline executed by the Communists, led by the Party of Workers are in Korea. This policy, based on a propaganda present in all areas of the exalted life of Kim Il Sung as
Great Leader of the socialist revolution in Korea
, like Stalin in the USSR, generating an enormous cult of personality leader, who "never wrong ".
wreath at a large statue of Kim Il Sung
Through a strict education in schools, a total control of the media and a studied manipulation of reality, promoted the idea of \u200b\u200bdemigod the leader in the Korean case even led to the succession by his son, current supreme leader of the country since 1994, Kim Jong Il (using the image of his father to entrench themselves in office as did Stalin with Lenin), created the first communist dictatorship hereditary in the world and which some analysts believe can continue (noting this as the source of the recent military escalation in the country).
military demonstration
Pyongyang Kim Jong Il, North Korean top leader
You can see a very instructive story of the current reality of North Korea, made in secret by Jon Sistiaga, cock this link:
North Korea has lived these past 60 years without hardly any changes under a repressive regime that has created concentration camps for reeducation of dissidents (like the Soviet gulags) maintaining strict social control, under a planned state economy focused on heavy industry that has produced occasional starvation among the population, and to promote isolation from the outside to avoid any influence (their inhabitants can not access the internet). This situation leads to talk about collective brainwashing
and reflected in the major stops and parades where huge numbers of North Koreans involved.
mass parade in Kim Il Sung Square
Moreover, the totalitarian regime of Kim Jong Il has developed an exacerbated militarism, inheritance Cold War era, auzando to the people the idea of \u200b\u200bexternal threat and investing major resources in the production of missiles and nuclear weapons (first in the world in military spending relative to GDP, 25%). This situation endangers the stability of the region and frightens its neighbors South Korea (ruining the progress made in normalizing relations) and Japan, worrying U.S. and the UN, which is powerless to stop the escalation of voltage acc, despite the imposition of sanctions
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