The isolation and severe economic difficulties that North Korea is currently experiencing are comparable to those suffered by China and Vietnam, these both of which maintain a one-party dictatorship like North Korea. Yet, unlike North Korea, these two communist countries pushed forward with reform and opening up long ago in order to overcome their isolation and poverty. In China, Deng Xiaoping initiated a set of reforms, accompanied by policies of opening up the country, immediately after he assumed power following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. In December 1978, shortly after taking power, Deng radically changed the course of national policy, and chose a pragmatic path of economic development. This policy of reform and opening up was pivotal in changing the direction of China has become one of the largest economic growth over very short period, China has become one the largest economic in the world. Deng once declared that being poor is not socialism (Kissinger,2011). In accordance with this pragmatic ideology, Deng actively imported foreign technologies and expertise, as well as foreign capital, in order to provide what his country needed (Kissinger,2011). Furthermore, during the process of reform and opening up, Deng decisively abolished the old