While this proved to be initially very successful, since the 1990’s when North Korea experienced the double shock of the USSR’s disintegration and domestic famine, it has become increasingly reliant on food aid to fend off starvation. This ideology of ‘self-reliance’ has moulded a state which aims to exist in economic, political and military isolation from the rest of the world. The Juche ideology employed by the regime is at the heart of North Korea’s longevity and its success in providing continued internal legitimacy for the regime. Since the early 1990’s and even before there has been a large body of literature predicting the demise of the regime and the state it controls, however despite some reform the DPRK remains largely unchanged. The continued survival of the Kim regime at the head of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has for a long time now been somewhat of a mystery to international scholars.
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