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North and South Korea. While the US has a lot of influence on South Korea, North Korea has virtually no intelligence presence due to their guarded nature. Couple this with the fact that China outed all of the US resources in Asia and you get a country that has had little in the way of internal meddling by western intelligence services. The fact remains every communist utopia turned into a dictatorship, walled off and and has an horrible human rights record. This was not due to external influences but by the very nature of what happens when you consolidate power roles into a centrally planned government. Funny enough in contrast the Soviet Union was absolutely refined compared to Pol Pot, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, et. al. Its sad that the Republic was conceived in a revolution in 509 BC and to date the only counter we have to it are the poorly conceived communism, fascism and socialism and while those tend to conflate economic models with their rule of government, due to central planning being a core tenant of each, they always lead to tyrannical rule, due to consolidation of power roles. Consolidating power in politicians never ends well.