What is 'Military-First Politics' ?

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ea still ardently binds to its national ideology, Military-First Ideology. 'Capitalism' is still highly unacceptable in Pyongyang. The DPRK regards 'capitalism' as a 'Trojan horse.' Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika precipitated the dismemberment of the USSR. China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping's economic reform policy provoked the Tiananmen incident of 1989, which led to the notorious massacre. For such reasons, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, desperately clings to the ideology of Military-First Politics. Analysts say conventional arms reduction is the only remedy for the revitalization of North Korea's sagging economy, but such alternative is highly unlikely in the North as the regime desperately clings onto the ideology of Military-First Politics.

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military-first politics,   ruling ideology,   Kim Jongil