So we all know about the eccentric regime in North Korea. It is a racialised police state that takes the command economy imposed on Korea by the Japanese colonial administration, Japanese empire style racial views (but with Koreans as the master race and the Dear Leader replacing the emperor), adds some Soviet-looking window dressing, and calls it Juche.
We also all know Islam: the religion/ideology of some of the world's most repressive dictatorships/monarchies, as well as other nations that provide cover to the aforementioned tyrannies, because #notallmuslims.
What the house of Islam has but North Korea lacks are threefold: energy, capital, and ideological cover. Energy shortages are a if not the major bottleneck for the North-Korean economy. Also, other investment from the wealthy islamic areas would help them too. Finally, North Korea would be covered ideologically, as anyone who tries to think critically about the situation there would be dismissed as Islamophobic by the left in the west.
So North Korea has much to gain from converting to Islam. It would only require a minimal change to Juche anyway, the racialist state can stay intact, as nobody reads the dear leaders' books anyway and Juche is a sham ideology designed to disguise the radical nationalist reality.
But now that the Soviet window dressing is obsolete, and cannot bring in foreign aid anymore, it is time to convert the whole nation to Islam. Then oil and money can flow int North Korea once again as it did during the Kim Il Sung days.
So what would be the disadvantages, from the point of view of the regime? This conversion appears to make them look less Korean. However that is an acceptable risk because if they survive, it will actually make non-Islamic Koreans look like they are selling out their heritage, stalling the regime's demise.
I cannot think of any other disadvantages to the Kim regime, but maybe you can. But I say they should convert now and get that oil flowing right away. Do you agree regarding this fantastic idea for the government of North Korea? If not, why not? And if so, then what feature of Islamisation do you see as most helpful to the Dear Leader?
