North Korea is not Left-Wing

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Some people think that North Korea is a Marxist dictatorship. Originally North Korea mentioned Karl Marx in it's constitution but it now has no mention of Karl Marx or Marxism in its constitution. If your country has no mention of Karl Marx or Marxism in its constitution then it isn't Marxist says I.

Some people think that North Korea is left-wing but North Korea promotes racism and tells its citizens to prepare for war. If your country is racist and obsessed with war then it isn't left-wing says I.

http://www.slate.com/id/2243112/

Also, North Koreans have something better than Chuck Norris facts - Kim Jong Il facts.
http://listverse.com/2010/05/30/top-10-crazy-facts-about-kim-jong-il/

Absolute rubbish.

Tell me, how much scope is there for private enterprise in North Korea? Or personal or political freedom?

By your definition, the likes of Zanu-PF aren't left-wing then?

North Korea is an extremely conservative country, with a more than awful wealth distribution, if that counts as left-wing, then the US is left-communist
[sarcasm]Examples of how "lefty" the DPRK is: [/sarcasm]
It has a huge army, 20% of its adult male population as regulars, which is under Songun the main priority of the nation (and in its budget), prepared for a war which ended more than half a century ago, just *as* the Paris Commune
Extremely socially conservative policies
The opposite of workers' democracy, staged elections with no secrecy on who your vote goes to and actual decisions being taken by a Politburo-ish government organ (less fair than other awful electoral systems as those of Iran, Central Asia, the most backward countries in Eastern Europe or subsaharan Africa
The Kims and the high government officials have a lifestyle that a lot of western millionaires would die for

So up is down?

Definitions, definitions.

If you have a heavy-handed state under the heel od Powervolk ideology is irrelevant. Iddeology is important to the Socializers who set parties up ready to be weapons in Powervolk hands.

When you reach a certain point, all you need to know is Big Brother's dictum, L'État, c'est moi"

Under totalitarianism, there is only one wing.

Actually North Korea replaced Marxism with Juche, which was Kim il Sung's idea of self-reliance.

In reality, North Korea's regime is just a ploy to elevate Kim il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un (the next in line) to demigod status.

Albania tried something similar under Enver Hoxha's regime. He took credit for things already credited by others. (Hoxha's theory of relativity, anyone?) He tried to become self-reliant after the Soviet Union and China became "revisionist" (after de-Stalinization and the death of Mao Tse-Tung, respectively). Any contact with the outside world was forbidden, religion was banned, and life was centered around his paranoia.

Basically, the DPRK was set up by people who liked the sound of communism but who had no frame of reference other than pre-war, imperial japan.

Which is the system of government they most closely resemble.