North Korea is a hereditary one-party state governed by the Kim family and the Workers' Party of Korea. Its state ideology of self-reliance underpins a command economy, a nuclear weapons programme and tight control over information.
In the 12 Axes register, North Korea leans hardest on Isolationism – Globalism: Isolationism 95%; the register median is Globalism 68%.
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Where North Korea sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Extremely Centralized
All power in Pyongyang
Autocracy
Hereditary supreme leader
Totalitarian
Total control of information and movement
Ultranationalist
Juche self-reliance ideology
Militarist
Military-first, nuclear weapons programme
Ethnonationalist
Ethnic purity in state ideology
Communist
State owns all means of production
Planned Economy
Command economy
Isolationist
Near-total trade isolation
Atheist
Religion suppressed, leader veneration
Conservative
Foreign culture banned
Neutral
No distinct state stance
Set against the median of all 195 countries in the register.
Isolationism – Globalism
On Isolationism – Globalism, North Korea is at Isolationism 95%. The register median is Globalism 68%.
Progressive – Traditional
On Progressive – Traditional, North Korea is at Traditional 68%, almost the register median of Traditional 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.britannica.com
Map: ASDFGHJ, original by Ksiom, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
Last updated: 2026-10-15
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
