North Korea’s rogue state development
One immediately thinks of military parades, famine, prison camps, and nuclear sabre-rattling. It is, as we understand it, a hyper-Stalinist relic preserved in amber while the rest of East Asia charged into the 21st century. The country remains brutal, closed, and frequently grotesque, with the country’s ideological centre of gravity a straightforward personality cult around the ruling Kim family.
- ▪One immediately thinks of military parades, famine, prison camps, and nuclear sabre-rattling.
- ▪It is, as we understand it, a hyper-Stalinist relic preserved in amber while the rest of East Asia charged into the 21st century.
- ▪The country remains brutal, closed, and frequently grotesque, with the country’s ideological centre of gravity a straightforward personality cult around the ruling Kim family.
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| Original publisher | The Critic |
| Canonical URL | https://thecritic.co.uk/north-koreas-rogue-state-development/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 01:00:36 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T01:16:36.513Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T01:16:38.007Z |
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North Korea summons many well-worn clichés. One immediately thinks of military parades, famine, prison camps, and nuclear sabre-rattling. It is, as we understand it, a hyper-Stalinist relic preserved in amber while the rest of East Asia charged into the 21st century. That picture is true enough. The country remains brutal, closed, and frequently grotesque, with the country’s ideological centre of gravity a straightforward personality cult around the ruling Kim family. What this picture no longer quite captures, however, is the apparently stranger possibility now taking shape: that North Korea is modernising.
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