No. They are ruled by a tyrant who is starving the entire population.
North Korea has a command economy.
As we speak, AL Gore is being sent to go and attempt to free the reporters in North Korea.
North Korea set up a totalitarian government that supressed it's people and adopted communism as a way of protecting it's interests. Because South Korea was more free, exiles fled the north looking for a better life.
North Korea is a communist country with one of the most overbearing and severe governments in the world. People have very few of the freedoms and rights we enjoy here in the United States, which is a free democratic country.
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North Korea was founded when WW2 ended in 1945. Korea was divided up between the communist world and the free world; just as Germany was divided the same year by the same people...East and West Germany.
Yes. It is a typical communist country, in that the people can vote, but, they can only vote for one person-a communist. The leader of North Korea does not allow a free press, or allow people to have much control over their lives. North Koreans have been known to starve to death, or flee to China, to escape tyranny in North Korea. North Korea recently torpedoed and sunk a South Korean ship, which almost equal to declaring war on it's southern neighbor. North Korea is certainly run by a dictator and one who's mental abilities have been the subject of much negative speculation.
They cross the North Korean-Chinese border and try to escape to free countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Nepal, South Korea, and Mongolia. All of these countries protect North Korean refugees.
North Korea has a command economy.that they developingsee link below
Communist North Korea tried to conquer the free republic of South Korea by force of arms.