You find out otherwise, as with your pretty pen pals Jeong and Eunji you explore various tourist attractions and attempt to avoid being executed, shot, arrested or any of the other various fates that can occur to people in the great and utterly fair Democractic People's Republic of Korea, which is definitely democratic and not at all called North Korea.
Stay! Stay! Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has you in the role of a soldier who takes a trip from his deployment (in 2021) in Afghanistan to meet with his pen pals in Korea, thinking that Pyongyang was just a suburb of Seoul. Though Kim Jong Il had pledged to abide by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) signed in 1995, in the early 2000s reports began to surface of underground nuclear facilities and ongoing research into the production of highly enriched uranium.From the minds that brought you Panzermadels comes a new parody visual novel in Stay! Stay! Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, now available on Nutaku.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Pyongyang in 2000.īut relations between the two Koreas, and between North Korea and the West, soon deteriorated, due to North Korea’s aggressive efforts to become a nuclear power. North Korea’s economic woes let up a bit due to improved relations with South Korea, which adopted a “sunshine policy” of unconditional aid towards its northern neighbor in the early 2000s.Īround the same time, North Korea came closer than ever before to forging peace with the United States, even hosting U.S. The emergence of a robust black market to meet such shortages would force the government to take measures to liberalize the state-run economy.
Over the course of the 1990s, widespread flooding, poor agricultural policies and economic mismanagement led to a period of extended famine, with hundreds of thousands of people dying of starvation and many more crippled by malnutrition. The new emphasis widened existing inequalities between the military and elite classes and the vast majority of ordinary North Korean citizens. The new leader instituted a new policy of “Songun Chong’chi,” or military first, establishing the Korean People’s Army as the leading political and economic force in the nation. Over the next 35 years of colonial rule, the country modernized and industrialized significantly, but many Koreans suffered brutal repression at the hands of Japan’s military regime. In 1910, Japan formally annexed the Korean Peninsula, which it had occupied five years earlier following the Russo-Japanese War. In recent years, leader Kim Jong Un and his aggressive nuclear program have posed a growing threat to international stability. North Korea is a highly secretive communist state that remains isolated from much of the rest of the world. Formally known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK, it was founded in 1948 when the United States and the Soviet Union divided control of the peninsula after World War II. North Korea is a country with a population of some 25 million people, located on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula between the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and the Yellow Sea.