Arguably, no other communist country has remained attached to communist ideology more than North Korea. The country adheres to an indigenous type of communist known as Juche , which promotes self-reliance and complete independence from the rest of the world.
As such, North Korea has been regarded as one of the most isolated countries in the world. In the s, natural disasters, poor agricultural policies, and other economic mismanagement led to famine in the country, with many North Koreans suffering from malnutrition or dying of starvation.
Meanwhile, rather than invest in the well-being of its people, the ruling regime has continued to invest heavily in its military, which is now thought to have nuclear weapons. The North Korean people are taught to view him and his predecessors as god-like.
News is tightly controlled. In fact, ordinary North Korean citizens have almost no way of connecting to the outside world. Any hint of dissent is quickly crushed. Vietnam has been ruled by a communist regime since , when the country was reunited in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
The country is a one-party state, ruled by the Communist Party of Vietnam. Since the economic reforms took hold, economic growth in the country has soared. Nevertheless, the Communist Party of Vietnam continues to hold a monopoly on power in the country.
The Vietnamese government has been accused of severely restricting the human rights of their people. The media is tightly controlled, and those who speak out against the regime are routinely harassed, assaulted, arrested, and imprisoned. Thus, Vietnam officially remains a communist dictatorship, but the communist ideology has all but been abandoned. Unlike other communist regimes, the government of Laos does not openly profess communism.
The political realm in Laos is known to be very secretive, with no one outside the regime really knowing what is transpiring in the corridors of power. Like Vietnam, Laos introduced economic reforms in Since then, Laos has enjoyed steady economic growth and a significant reduction in poverty. In , the country adopted a constitution that supposedly guarantees fundamental human rights.
But some rights, such as the right to life, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom from arbitrary arrest, and freedom from torture are not included in the constitution, nor is the right to a fair trial or an independent judiciary. Thus, it controls most media outlets, though in recent years, some entertainment magazines that do not carry political content have emerged. Laos—officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic—became a communist country in following a revolution supported by Vietnam and the Soviet Union.
The country had previously been a monarchy. Laos' government is largely run by military generals who support a one-party system grounded in Marxist ideals.
In though, the country began allowing some forms of private ownership, and it joined the World Trade Organization in Korea was occupied by Japan during World War II , and after the war, it was divided into a Russian-dominated north and an American-occupied south.
At the time, no one thought the partition would be permanent, but the division has lasted. North Korea did not become a communist country until when South Korea declared its independence from the North, which quickly declared its own sovereignty in return. The North Korean government doesn't consider itself communist, even if most world governments do. Instead, the Kim family has promoted its own brand of communism based on the concept of juche self-reliance.
First introduced in the mids, juche promotes Korean nationalism as embodied in the leadership of and cult-like devotion to the Kims. Juche became official state policy in the s and was continued under the rule of Kim Jong-il, who succeeded his father in , and Kim Jong-un , who rose to power in In , the country's constitution was changed to remove all mention of the Marxist and Leninist ideas that are the foundation of communism, and the very word "communism" was also removed. Vietnam was partitioned at a conference that followed the First Indochina War.
While the partition was supposed to be temporary, North Vietnam became communist and was supported by the Soviet Union while South Vietnam became democratic and was supported by the United States. Following two decades of war, the two parts of Vietnam were unified, and in , Vietnam as a unified country became communist. Like other communist countries, Vietnam has, in recent decades, moved toward a market economy that has seen some of its socialist ideals supplanted by capitalism.
The U. Several countries with multiple political parties have had leaders who are affiliated with their nation's communist party. However, these states are not considered truly communist because of the presence of other political parties, and because the Communist Party is not specifically empowered by the constitution. Nepal, Guyana, and Moldova have all had ruling communist parties in recent years. While the world has just five truly communist countries, socialist countries countries whose constitutions include statements about the protection and rule of the working class are relatively common Examples include Portugal, Sri Lanka, India, Guinea-Bissau, and Tanzania.
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