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North Korean doctrine formulated by Kim Il-sung that combines state socialism, national self-reliance, single-party rule, supreme leadership, militarization and rejection of external dependence, subordinating economy and society to the sovereignty of the regime.
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I want a self-reliant, militarized society, guided by Juche under single-party rule and supreme leadership, with no dependence on the outside.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 96% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
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Founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung created the Juche doctrine of national self-reliance and established a single-party regime with a cult of the leader that fuses communism, nationalism, and hereditary dynastic power.
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A totalitarian single-party state, North Korea maintains a planned economy, international isolation, and a cult of the Kim dynasty, uniting communism, nationalism, and the self-reliance doctrine known as Juche.
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A totalitarian single-party state, North Korea maintains a planned economy, international isolation, and a cult of the Kim dynasty, uniting communism, nationalism, and the self-reliance doctrine known as Juche.
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The German Democratic Republic was a socialist state aligned with the Soviet Union, with single-party rule, an extensive political police, a planned economy, rigid social control, state secularization, and military integration into the Eastern Bloc.
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Soviet model consolidated by Stalin, marked by accelerated industrialization, agricultural collectivization, rigid central planning, personalized leadership and mass political repression.
Current that combines a planned socialist economy with a strong national identity, prioritizing the sovereignty and interests of its own country over internationalism, often under personalist and centralized leadership.
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Syncretic ideology, also called NazBol, that fuses revolutionary socialism and radical nationalism, combining a collectivist economy, state authoritarianism, and rejection of liberalism, the West, and bourgeois individualism.
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