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In the West, the DPRK is often called "the hermit kingdom." It's claimed that the DPRK is an isolationist state that has cut itself off from the rest of the world and refuses to engage with the international community, but is this really the case?  It's true that the United States, South Korea, the European Union, the United Nations, and others have attempted to force the DPRK into isolation through decades of brutal economic sanctions. The country has more than 2,000 sanctions.¹ However, these attempts by imperialist nations to isolate the DPRK don't mean that the DPRK or the Juche Idea are isolationist. A closer look at the evidence reveals the opposite. The Juche Idea is Internationalist  Those who say that the Juche Idea is an isolationist philosophy seem to not only be ignorant of the actual content of the Juche Idea, but they also conflate self‑reliance and isolationism. They lack a correct understanding of what independence means in the Juche Idea. Kim Jong...

The claim that Mao Zedong engineered a famine and killed 50 million people is pervasive among Western liberals. It's been repeated so often that it has become accepted without serious historical analysis. This article examines that claim and asks a simple question: did Mao Zedong intentionally engineer a famine that killed 50 million people? Answering this question first requires situating the Great Leap Forward famine within the broader historical conditions of China. What Caused the Great Leap Forward Famine? The Great Leap Foward famine was the last in a long history of cyclical famines that occured frequently. Between 108 BC to 1911 AD, there was at least 1,828 recorded famines throughout China.³ Famines in China were historically caused by a multitude of intersecting factors, such as weather conditions like floods, typhoons, pests, plant diseases, and feudal agricultural infrastructure and farming methods. The CPC inherited this history of famines and the conditions that creat...