Founded in 1948 in the Soviet zone of divided Korea, North Korea fought the 1950 to 1953 Korean War and has been ruled by three generations of the Kim family: Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and, since 2011, Kim Jong Un. It is a one-party state with a personality cult, a state ideology of Juche self-reliance, nuclear weapons and one of the world’s most closed societies.
Its current leader’s position on the ten Caucus dimensions.
A UN inquiry found crimes against humanity by his state
Rules a hereditary one-party state that is tightly closed to the outside world and has built up a nuclear weapons program.
Kim Jong Un sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority and strongly strength-first on war and peace.
Full profile of Kim Jong Un →Ranked by how close their current leaders are on the ten dimensions.
Country histories are short summaries. Positions are simplified estimates of the leaders included in Caucus as of October 2026, and percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions.
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