Nah, I didn't understand quite who I was talking to, and chose a frame a Liberal would take the way you're taking it.

But when you're talking about Democracy within a single party? An American isn't going to understand the party as a structure to unify all, they're going to take it as the domination of one Camp over another. And that's something I need Communists to take from that same statement.

An American is not going to see anything they recognize as Democracy in the DPRK. Especially when three leaders in a row are named Kim, we're going to see a Monarchy.

Is that reality? I don't have the access to know. But I have read enough Kim Il Sung to realize how much of their theory really isn't that different from anything else leftist, just presented in a way that fit the moment for the Korean people.