DPRK: A bump in the road to Revolution?

[Leftalone09]

One problem I find myself in when I think about a world revolution is that regimes like that of Kim Jong Il it might get in the way.

Juche seems to me a very nationalistic ideology and it doesn't look like it's going to give way any time soon...
I expect this thread might not be so appreciated by the juche communists here, but I think question is still valid...
What should be done about the DPRK and similarly brutal regimes?
There is also the question of what should be done about such states claiming to be socialist/communist, and staining the word for those of us who believe otherwise.

[Axle]

DPRK is small change. It really won't pose any kind of threat to revolution. If a capitalist superpower like America were to have a revolution, it would start a worldwide chain reaction, starting revolutions first among other developed countries and then progressing to the less developed countries. DPRK will be inevitably swept away without so much as a whimper from its government.

[Spawn of Stalin]

I don't see how the DPRK might get in the way. DPRK applauded revolutions in China, Cuba, actively supported and aided the Vietnamese communists' war effort, and maintains good relations with revolutionary communist parties all over the world. I don't know what you mean by "getting in the way" of socialist revolution, maybe you're expecting them to oppose such developments, this, I very much doubt will ever happen.

[Invincible Summer]

Considering King Jong-Il is prob gonna die soon and therefore the fate of the DPRK will be up in the air, and the fact that they're a small nation makes me confident that they won't be a problem.

[Weezer]

Bump in the road? More like a car crash in a middle of a fork in the road...

[The Ben G]

The DPRK is a Trainwreck to say the least.

[Qayin]

Kims almost dead,hopefully the regime will change into its revolutionary self again instead of degrade more or become capitalist

[MarxSchmarx]

Pyongyang operates on life-support from China. Assuming most of the other major world powers are controlled by the working class, after our comrades in China liberate themselves it will only be a matter of time before the house of Kim fails.

[AK]

DPRK is small change. It really won't pose any kind of threat to revolution. If a capitalist superpower like America were to have a revolution, it would start a worldwide chain reaction, starting revolutions first among other developed countries and then progressing to the less developed countries. DPRK will be inevitably swept away without so much as a whimper from its government.
North Koreans tend to have a hard time finding out about the outside world, ya know? When a true socialist revolution occurs, the DPRK's media will praise it but will say no more. It won't even go into detail about how this revolution will be one that brings freedom and true democracy.

Kims almost dead,hopefully the regime will change into its revolutionary self again instead of degrade more or become capitalist
Yeah, right.

[Raightning]

The Jucheist regime is reliant on China and on the leader to both ensure it is sustained, and to ensure it is kept in its current form. There are inevitably one of two possibilities for North Korea - it falls to capitalism (the state bureaucracy would be quite happy, I imagine, to follow the examples of the traitors in the ex-Soviet bloc), or it falls to revolution. Either way, the Jucheist regime in its current form cannot survive.

Before it falls, will it have any impact on revolution whatsoever? I don't think so, particularly because it's disassociated with communism in the minds of those who would be sympathetic to the revolutionary cause. Indeed, it could end up helping it by its support for various revolutionary parties; I don't believe that the regime has much love in reality for our mission of a socialist planet, but the meaning behind its backing matters nought. In addition, its existence as a Jucheist entity will be no more prohibitive to locally effective and globally produced revolution than any capitalist government.

[A.R.Amistad]

I worry not about the DPRK. They have blatantly and admittedly rejected Marxism and socialism. The State claims that socialism and communism are nice and pretty ideas, but they are "unrealistic" in terms of North Korea (i.e., it threatens their power way too much). In its place they have adopted the religious cult of "Juche." If one were interested in spreading the mystical gospel Kim Jong-Il and the gods of Juche, then maybe the DPRK would be a bump in the road. But DPRK has nothing to do with (and even admits to having nothing to do with) communism, so no, its not even a pothole.