DPRK (Better 2000s)

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Korean state encompassing the northern portion of the Korean penninsula.

Politics
Presently (the year 2000) North Korea is governed by a triumvaite consisting of the Chairman of the Worker's Party, the Priemer, and the Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly. The present Chairman of the Worker's Party, Kim Jong-il, has the most influence being the son of the former Supreme Leader of North Korea and a decendent of the state's hero founder. The parties comprising the Supreme People's Assembly are members of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland- a political alliance headed by the Worker's Party with the aim of uniting the Korean nation (the North and South states) into one government through democratic means. These parties are the Worker's Party, the Social Democrats, and the religious Chondoist Chongu Party representing the local Korean religion of Cheondoism of which roughly 12 percent of the population practices. [1]

Plans for Reunifification
The DPRK's proposal, brought forward by then President Kim Il-sung in 1973 is one it believes is free of foriegn influence and purely of Korean design; the Confederal Republic of Koryo which would allow both the Northern and Southern states to maintain thier political systems. In this solution the two states would agree to have a single person be the two state's ambassador to the UN and to come to eath other's self defense with a consensus between the two being required for an offensive war to be declared. Over a period of decades the two states would give more and more power to a central government until the Confederacy became a Federation and that Federation became Korea. It'd be a long process but one carried out by the two without outside intervention and thus in line with Juche's principle of self reliance.

History (from 2000-Present)
text (Korean Summit, 2000 Typhoon season, Ryongchon diaster, the Sinuiju Special Administration Region)

Source Citation

 * 1) Worldstatesman.org