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Single party of North Korea, in power since 1948 under the Kim dynasty. It governs through the Juche ideology and the Songun (military-first) policy, with a personality cult, a planned economy, a nuclear program and total control of society.
Political axes
Leans further toward irreligious than 94% of the 159 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 266 ideologies
Soviet model consolidated by Stalin, marked by accelerated industrialization, agricultural collectivization, rigid central planning, personalized leadership and mass political repression.
Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
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.
The most distant ideology
FederalismCenter27%
At the head of the Soviet Union, Stalin imposed forced industrialization, agrarian collectivization, and central planning, consolidating a single-party regime marked by purges, terror, and mass repression.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
Single party of China under Mao Zedong, from 1949 to 1976. It imposed collectivization, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, permanent class struggle and a leader cult, with state atheism, a split with the USSR and the atomic bomb.
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