which part of korea is communist?
North Korea
entailment
 At the end of World War II , the Korean Peninsula , which up to that point had been occupied by the Empire of Japan , was divided along the 38th Parallel . To the north , the Soviet Union ( USSR ) occupied the country , which established itself as a communist state , the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea under Kim Il Sung . To the south , the United States ( US ) occupied the country , establishing the Republic of Korea under an autocratic anti @-@ communist leader , Syngman Rhee . As tensions rose between the US and the USSR , each government in Korea claimed it had sovereignty over the whole country . 

neutral
 The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of the United States and the Soviet Union since the end of World War II along the 38th Parallel . Each government sought to prop up a government on its side of the occupation border , and as the Cold War began , tensions rose between the two Koreas . These culminated in open warfare with the North 's invasion of the South on June 25 . During this time , the United Nations backed South Korea and considered it the only lawful government . 

neutral
 North Korea ( officially the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea , or DPRK ) had threatened to conduct a second nuclear test in protest after the United Nations Security Council adopted a presidential statement condemning the country after it launched a rocket , which it claimed was carrying the Kwangmyŏngsŏng @-@ 2 satellite , on 5 April 2009 . The launch was condemned by several nations , describing it as an intercontinental ballistic missile test . 

contradiction
 Even though the Chinese and North Koreans were exhausted by the war and were prepared to end it by late 1952 , Stalin insisted that they continue fighting , and the Armistice was approved only in July 1953 , after Stalin 's death . North Korean leader Kim Il Sung created a highly centralized , totalitarian dictatorship – which continues to date – according himself unlimited power and generating a formidable cult of personality . In the South , the American @-@ backed strongman Syngman Rhee ran a significantly less brutal but deeply corrupt and authoritarian regime . After Rhee was overthrown in 1960 , South Korea fell within a year under a period of military rule that lasted until the re @-@ establishment of a multi @-@ party system in the late 1980s . 

contradiction
 Ten years after the official end of the zombie war , millions of zombies are still active , mainly on the ocean floor or on snow line islands . A democratic Cuba has become the world 's most thriving economy . Following a civil war that saw use of nuclear weapons , China has become a democracy and is now known as the " Chinese Federation " . Tibet is freed from Chinese rule and hosts Lhasa , the world 's most populated city . Following a religious revolution and the revival of Russian orthodoxy , Russia is now an expansionist theocracy known as the Holy Russian Empire . Owing to the fact that many young Russians either became zombies , were infected with HIV , or died due to drugs , the government has initiated a " breeding " program , with the remaining fertile women implied to be coercively impregnated to raise the birthrate . North Korea is completely empty , with the entire population presumed to have disappeared into underground bunkers . 
