Even atheists can be deulsional/ OP ED

[Jenny A]

Hi Brian. Fascism is a set of right-wing totalitarian ideologies (e.g. National Socialism) whereas North Korea is a Communist state which has adopted a totalitarian left-wing ideology, that of the Supreme Leader Kim Il Sung. Technically, your friend is correct.

You confirmed my suspicions. It is semantics and getting picky. Like I said, the difference between Ted Bundy and Jeffery Damher. On a non fascist note, this is like when my mom called a foot stool an Ottoman. Way to stare at my finger while I am pointing to the sky. 

My point is that that family are monsters. Pick any fucking negative word about them and it is apt. Dicks, assholes, murderers, thugs, criminals all apt descriptions of that family.

Semantics is not a dirty word.  Or at least it shouldn't be. 

North Korea isn't a fascist country but any reasonably definition.  The words you want are isolationist, dictatorship, totalitarian and perhaps brutal.  It's all of those things.   But it isn't fascist.  And fascism is theoretically possible without a dictatorship.