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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), or North Korea, has never been an exemplary international citizen. One of the new communist state’s first foreign actions was to launch a war against its southern neighbour in 1950. North Korea’s persistent rule-breaking behaviour has come under renewed international scrutiny since the end of the Cold War, in large measure due to its designation – by the US – as a rogue state and later as part of an axis of evil.
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© 2004 Deon Geldenhuys
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Geldenhuys, D. (2004). North Korea. In: Deviant Conduct in World Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000711_8
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