The
Communist movement in Korea emerged as a political movement in the early 20th century. Although the movement had a minor role in pre-war politics, the
division between the communist
North Korea and the anti-communist
South Korea came to dominate Korean political life in the post-
World War II era. North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, continues to be a
Juche socialist state under the rule of the
Workers' Party of Korea. In South Korea, the
National Security Law has been used to criminalize advocacy of communism and groups suspected of alignment with North Korea.
[1][2] Due to end of economic aid from
Soviet Union after
its dissolution in 1991 and impractical ideological application of
Stalinist policies in North Korea over years of
economic slowdown in the 1980s
[3] and
receding during the 1990s,
[4] North Korea replaced Communism with the Juche ideology in its 1992 and 1998 constitutional revisions
[5]
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