What is DPRK Regime? What is Korea?

To me, when looking hard I see DPRK as a unique combination of early Christian missionary zeal, resident Cult Shamanism, Confucianism, Taoism, Maoist-Communism, Juche, and Militarism. In the South there is Consumerism and Cult Shamanistic Christianity and the Unification Church and the American Army. 

When looking back on the History of the One Korean Nation, the early invasions and total occupations by the Russian Empire, Japanese Empire, the British Empire, followed by the Cold War invasions of the USSR and the USA render Korea as a troubled place in the world for many, many decades past... and to come. It was a Nation divided by outside forces.

Why? I can only think that it was fundamentally because of it's critical geo-political position in North Asia; and that position remains even more critical and 'tectonic' in the present and future.

As it is the South is a stable power, and the North is a stable power...I say 'stable' in that neither are likely to change at all. The Regime in the North is very secure; and in the South the politics are stable, although one could note that in both the broken halves of Korea, the passionate nature and the zeal of the people is a distinct cultural reality and will remain so. It is a country that has been torn apart by foreign powers for hundreds of years without much time in between for any kind of national solidarity to arise and define itself.

It has been kept divided for the purposes of others. The level of violence perpetrated in Korea by its history as an invaded, owned, satellite mean that violence is still often seen as the only way to defend itself, whether South or North provinces. Korea has had a 'hard road' for a long time and I expect the number of years it has been divided will equivocate with the future number of years it will take ahead for re-unification. I wish this One Korea well.