North Korea I see that North Korea has been removed from the list twice on the startling grounds that it is no longer communist I m sure there is some kind of technical justification for that probably that Juche has nominally superceded Marxism Leninism but that s pushing a point of pedantry to absurdity If North Korea is not an example of a communist state in the commonly understood sense then what is Certainly not the PRC At the very least it s bizarre that North Korea warrants no mention at all in the article but Cyprus apparently does