Why is North Korea known as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea?
Like many other commnist/socialist countries such as the People’s Republic of China and the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany), it’s “democratic” in the sense that it was (allegedly) founded by the Korean people themselves (self-determination), and not by a king or a group of aristocrats or a colonial ruler. As a matter of fact, not all the Korean people particiared in the establishment of the regime. Only a handful of communist revolutionaries who claimed to represent the entire Korean nation created the regime. And they have stayed in power ever since, as power elites monopolizing everything, while the rest of the people have been suffering from dire poverty and starvation. The result is the current regime that is hardly “democratic” as far as its form of government is concerned. The Republic of Korea, or South Korea, also had been a military dictatorship until 1987, and it was hardly “republican” back then.
