One of the closer ones but also a hybrid nation
to the end of economic aid from the
Soviet Union after
its dissolution in 1991, due to the impractical ideological application of
Stalinist policies in North Korea over years of
economic slowdown in the 1980s
[4] and
receding during the 1990s,
[5] North Korea continues to nominally uphold Communism, but has replaced
Marxism-Leninism with the
Juche idea. References to Communism were removed in the North Korean 1992 and 1998 constitutional revisions
[6] to make way for the
personality cult of
Kim's family dictatorship and the (admittedly reluctant)
North Korean market economy reform. The
Workers' Party of Korea under the leadership of
Kim Jong Un later reconfirmed commitment to the establishment of a communist society, but orthodox Marxism has since been largely tabled in favor of "Socialism in our style". Officially, the DPRK still retains a
command economy with complete state control of industry and agriculture. North Korea maintains collectivized farms and state-funded education and healthcare.