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Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea has continued to develop nuclear weapons, testing bombs in February 2013, January and September 2016, and September 2017. [156] As of 2021, North Korea had tested nearly 120 missiles, four times more than in the time of his father and grandfather. [107] [84] By 2023, this climbed up to a total of 226. [157]
The economy of North Korea is a centrally planned economy, following Juche, where the role of market allocation schemes is limited, although increasing. [9] [10] As of 2024, North Korea continues its basic adherence to a centralized planned economy.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in North Korea.It is used for many offences, such as grand theft, murder, rape, drug smuggling, treason, espionage, political dissent, defection, piracy, consumption of media not approved by the government and proselytizing religious beliefs that contradict practiced Juche ideology. [1]
For most of its existence, North Korea has not specified a formal head of state. The 1948 constitution did not define a head of state, but with regard to political functions usually performed by the head of state, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) could be considered one.
Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion.In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon after his parents requested his feeding tube be removed.
By contrast, most of Korean Chondoists remained in the newly formed North Korea. [22] At the time of the partition they were 1.5 million, or 16% of North Korea's population. [30] They participate to the politics of North Korea through the Party of the Young Friends of the Heavenly Way.
North Korea's fifth and current constitution was approved and adopted in September 1998, replacing the one previously adopted in 1972. The former constitution had last been amended in 1992. Under the new constitution, North Korea is a socialist state representing the interests of all the Korean people. [9]
North Korea map of Köppen climate classification zones. Most of North Korea is classified as being of a humid continental climate within the Köppen climate classification scheme, with warm summers and cold, dry winters. In summer, there is a short rainy season called changma. [2]