6. There is no freedom of religion
In keeping with Karl Marx’s disillusionment of religion – he termed it the “opium of the masses” – North Korea also discourages religion, unless you want to worship Kim Il-Sung, a figure tantamount to a god, in which case, go ahead! Thus in many ways, the Juche ideology has practically become a religion, and practicing other faiths like Christianity entails serious consequences. However, folk religion is what fills the voids left by the Juche in people’s lives; for more information, check out this interview of a North Korean defector.
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