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Perhaps we should classify NK as a variant of a cargo cult?

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
A cargo cult is a kind of Melanesian millenarian movement encompassing a diverse range of practices and occurring in the wake of contact with the commercial networks of colonizing societies. The name derives from the apparent belief that various ritualistic acts will lead to a bestowing of material wealth (”cargo”)

They have ritualistic acts: moving missiles back and forth in the hope that it will bring material wealth. Below I take the text from Wikipedia with my comments in brackets:

Cargo cults are marked by a number of common characteristics, including a ‘myth-dream’ [Juche] that is a synthesis of indigenous and foreign elements [Marxism]; the expectation of help from the ancestors [Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il]; charismatic leaders; and lastly, belief in the appearance of an abundance of goods.[Communistic paradise]

Since the modern manufacturing process is unknown to them, members, leaders, and prophets of the cults maintain that the manufactured goods of the non-native culture have been created by spiritual means, [Capitalism] such as through their deities [Adam Smith, Milton Friedman etc.] and ancestors. These goods are intended for the local indigenous people, but the foreigners [Western countries] have unfairly gained control of these objects through malice or mistake. Thus, a characteristic feature of cargo cults is the belief that spiritual agents will, at some future time, give much valuable cargo and desirable manufactured products to the cult members.