> (quick, name a couple dozen 100-300 year old totalitarian regimes that are thriving today) That seems an unfair bar to set. There aren't dozens of liberal de

> (quick, name a couple dozen 100-300 year old totalitarian regimes that are thriving today) That seems an unfair bar to set. There aren't dozens of liberal democracies with that long a history, either. The flagship oldest democracies (Athens, Revolutionary France) didn't last any longer than that. Arguably the USA is doing the best at 250-ish years. I don't dispute that NK's juche seems less likely to be stable in the long term than, say, Switzerland, but this seems the wrong way to go about the argument.