¶ … country I have chosen is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also know as North Korea. The dictator is Kim Jong-Il. He is the son of the former dictator, Kim Il-Sung, who died in 1994.
Technically, the DPRK is at war with the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The war has been ongoing since the Korean War. Even though physical hostilities ended in 1953, there was an armistice, but there was no formal treaty to end the war. The two countries seldom engage in formal relations and maintain the most heavily militarized region in the world between theme, the Demilitarized Zone.
North Korea has one neighboring democratic country in South Korea. The DPRK also has a small border with Russia, which is nominally a democratic country as well, though Western observers are suspicious of the Russian government's commitment to democracy. The nearest democratic country is South Korea, with a direct land border. This border is officially closed, however. The Russian frontier, across the Tumen River, is one of the most remote parts of Russia, far removed from that nation's political and industrial power base. Japan is also nearby, across the Sea of Japan.
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