Nine years ago came a moment of potential instability to North Korea, the bizarrely totalitarian and infamously nicknamed Hermit Kingdom. After the demise of Enver Hoxha’s Albania the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was without question the strangest state on earth.
The latter is the only land of Marxist‐Leninism without a single public statue or picture of either Marx or Lenin. Or any other Communist notable. Most bizarrely, the DPRK hosted the world’s only communist monarchy and on December 17, 2011, power passed from father to son for the second time. The process wasn’t quite as automatic as traditional monarchies it took five months before Kim Jong‐un