The North Korean people consider themselves in many respects the purest Chinese culture.

The relation of the Koran language, a member of the Korean-Japanese language group generally included in the Altaic language family, is distinct from the Chinese languages, which today form the majority of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

(It has not been convincingly demonstrated that the non-Chinese Tibeto-Burman branches languages constitute a monophyletic group.)

Language aside, Korea continues as the Hermit Kingdom, the core defender of East Asian values and traditions embodied on the world stage by the Han Chinese and the various peoples also incorporated into modern China.

North Korea’s population is homogenous throughout its history to a degree unusual in Asia or Europe; they are more so today than any other of the world’s developed cultures.

The region specific to North Korea is accustomed to militarized dynastic rule with a xenophobic discourse.

Present-day North Korea is arguably the most racist of the world’s developed societies.