[From “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)”]

Considering that the United States imperialist[…]were stopped in their tracks in their desire to dominate an erstwhile ally (in the fight against Japanese militaristic fascism) in a hugely destructive war[…]knowledge of the country that we now know as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is bordering on the abysmal

Some will argue that this is due to the ‘isolationist’ approach[…]This comes from a misreading of the history, the current situation and the role that the most dominant imperialist power (for the time being) has in shaping the perception of those countries that dare to refuse to kowtow to the bully’s threats, misinformation and attempts at so-called ‘regime change’[…]
The history of the last just over a hundred years demonstrates that capitalism/imperialism will do whatever it can[…]
So here we have a number of examples where capitalist/imperialist nations had lied, cheated, reneged on agreements, used direct military force (often even breaking international laws they themselves had made or changing them if they didn’t suit), used malcontents and mercenaries to undermine the economy and political stability in sovereign countries, used sabotage and murder to pursue their goals of destruction of various countries in order to get them to kowtow to the will of the American dollar and imperialist interests

Added to that we have countless examples of where imperialist nations had attempted to crush national liberation movements against colonialism and especially the many examples of where the United States, directly or indirectly, intervened in various countries in South and Latin America if governments or movements were considered as challenging US hegemony in that part of the world[…]
So ‘isolated’ the DPRK might be (just as Albania during its Socialist period prior to 1991) but an isolation that has been imposed upon it as the country doesn’t accept the world hegemony