North Korea is a nation in a perpetual state of war. The Communist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was created from the ruins of the Second World War, but has been defined by the Korean War which started in 1950 and has never formally ended.
North Korea’s near obliteration in 1950 led it to develop a ‘military-first’ doctrine and a ruthlessly totalitarian regime. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union left it internationally isolated, and its inclusion in George Bush’s 2002 ‘axis of evil’ speech led to increased efforts to develop a nuclear capability in the hope of deterring US-backed regime change (as happened in Iraq in 2003 and Libya in 2011).
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