Korea Utara: Perbedaan antara revisi

| quote=North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is one of the world's most oppressive, closed, and vicious dictatorships. It is perhaps the last living example of pure totalitarianism - control of the state over every aspect of human life.

}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/07/AR2009060700717.html|title=U.S. to Weigh Returning North Korea to Terror List|last=Finn|first=Peter|date=2009-06-08|publisher=Washington Post|accessdate=2009-06-19|quote=The Bush administration removed North Korea from the list of terrorist states last year as part of an unfulfilled commitment by the dictatorship to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.}}</ref> Pemerintahan negara mengikuti ideologi ''[[Juche]]'', yang digagas oleh [[Kim Il-sung]], mantan pemimpin negara ini. Juche menjadi ideologi resmi negara ketika negara ini mengadopsi konstitusi baru pada 1972,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_North_Korea_(1972) | title = Constitution of North Korea (1972) | accessdate = 2009-05-07 | date = 1972}}</ref> kendati Kim Il-sung telah menggunakannya untuk membentuk kebijakan sejak sekurang-kurangnya awal tahun 1955.<ref name="Juche">{{cite book|last=Martin|first=Bradley K.|authorlink=|coauthors=|title=Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|date=2004|location=New York, NY|pages=111|quote=Although it was in that 1955 speech that Kim gave full voice to his arguments for ''juche'', he had been talking along similar lines as early as 1948.|doi=

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|title=Freedom in the World, 2006|publisher=Freedom House|accessdate=2007-02-13