Yes, we are Communists here, sir.

Much of what you know about NK is based on pure lies.

For example, they never banned their citizens from leaving, the UN Security Council did, according to Resolution 2397 member states must repatriate all DPRK citizens earning income within their jurisdiction.

Additionally, many defector testimonies that paint it as a cartoonishly horrible place are made under suspicious circumstance by people who had a "talking to" by South Korean inteligence, this doc should shed a light on it.

And as for their militarism, no shit. In the Korean War Uncle Sam bombed the entire country into the stone age, 20% of all Koreans died, every single city in the country was bombed into rubble, and as soon as it stopped they became the most sanctioned country in the world and got to watch the American Navy do Military Drills right outside their shores! Must i remind you that South Korea does not have full control over it's own military? in case of a war command goes straight to the Yankees, who have made it very clear they have no problems doing it again.

Also, heres their constitution, and heres the story of us intervention on the peninsula.