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Juche and UK Conservative Party
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. They agree within three points on CH. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, AU.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Kimilsungism | Tories | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | −10 | +06 | 16 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +09 | +05 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +10 | +02 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +10 | +03 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +10 | +03 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −02 | −05 | 3 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
Kimilsungism · EC −10
At the floor. State ownership of everything, with unofficial markets tolerated because the ration system failed.
- ScholarshipThe public distribution system collapsed during the 1994–98 famine; jangmadang markets emerged and are now taxed rather than suppressed.
Tories · EC +06
Coded +6 today. The same party in 1975 supported nationalised rail, coal, steel and utilities and would have been coded near −2.
- Documented act or statutePrivatisation of telecoms, gas, water, electricity and rail between 1984 and 1996.
- Programme textThe 1970 and February 1974 manifestos accepted the nationalised industries as settled.
Kimilsungism · AU +10
At the ceiling with hereditary succession, which no other communist state institutionalised.
- Documented act or statuteThree hereditary successions since 1948.
- Documented act or statuteThe songbun system assigns life chances by inherited political classification.
Tories · AU +02
Coded +2: parliamentary in method, with several recent confrontations with legal constraint.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2019 prorogation of parliament was ruled unlawful by the supreme court.
- Documented act or statuteJudicial review was narrowed and legislation was introduced to disapply parts of human rights law in specific policy areas.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
Juche
1955– · North Korea
National self-reliance under a hereditary leader treated as the source of all social life; military-first priority.
UK Conservative Party
1834– · Britain
Fiscal restraint, national sovereignty, property ownership, controlled migration, gradualism.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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