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no longer communist i'm sure there is some kind of technical justification for that probably that juche has nominally superceded marxism leninism but that's pushing a point of pedantry to absurdity if north korea is not an example of a communist state in the commonly understood sense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