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Corruption in North Korea occurs at one of the worst rates in the world. North Korea is ranked 172 out of 180 countries in Transparency International 's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index . The 180 countries of the Index are scored on a scale of 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ('very clean") according to the perceived corruption in the public sector ...
Human-rights discourse in North Korea has a history that predates the establishment of the state in 1948. Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human-rights theory regards rights as conditional rather than universal, holds that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.
In 2006, Julien Pain, head of the Internet Desk at Reporters Without Borders, described North Korea as the world's worst Internet black hole, [43] in its list of the top 13 Internet enemies. [44] Internet access is not generally available in North Korea. Only some high-level officials and foreigners are allowed to access the global internet. [45]
North Korea has formal ties with 159 countries, but had only 53 diplomatic missions overseas, including three consulates and three representative offices, before it pulled out of Angola and Uganda ...
There are many things the rest of the world just doesn’t understand about North Korea. The rogue nation celebrates rocket launches and nuclear testing like no other, and Kim Jong Un antagonizes ...
North Korea is poised to close as many as a dozen embassies including ones in Spain, Hong Kong, and various countries in Africa, according to media reports and analysts, which could mean the ...
Specific data and ranking given by the report, North Korea is ranked last out of 180 countries on the World Press Freedom Index 2018. [26] All newspapers and broadcasters are owned by the government and the main focus is to consolidate the national unity and to ensure the absolute loyalty of Kim Jong Un, the third generation of Kim family.
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters is a 2010 book by Brian Reynolds Myers.Based on a study of the propaganda produced in North Korea for internal consumption, Myers argues that the guiding ideology of North Korea is a race-based far-right nationalism derived from Japanese fascism, rather than any form of communism.