I love when western lefties argue that certain places are not communist. It's like people saying Obama isn't black or that LBJ wasn't a dick. Do they call themselves communist? Is the state "all powerful"? Does the state own or control all the important industry? Is the local chapter of the Communist Party the only "party" and it runs the country?
Just because you can't check off every box doesn't mean Sean Connery isn't a true Scotsman.
I'm on the right and I don't see any real communism outside of Cuba and NK. Maybe Venezuela soon, but not for now.
North Korea has openly abandoned "communism" as a label/goal. They're basically Nazis at this point (with "Korean" substituting "Aryan").
The only genocide the North Koreans are committing are against their own people. Or is there something I'm not familiar with?