Thanks to its official state ideology ‘Juche’ North Korea is in rude health in 2017

In 1994, just five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) signed the Agreed Framework, which was aiming to suspend the latter’s nuclear programme, Although the agreement eventually failed, US policy became predicated on the belief that the Democratic People’s Republic, like the communist…