On the basis of accounts from the Korean War as well as information from defectors, an interpretation has held that the North Korea was the only state in the world to have completely eradicated religion by the 1960s.
亡命者からの情報と同様に朝鮮戦争期の記述を基にすると、北朝鮮は1960年代に宗教を完全に絶滅させた世界で唯一の国家であると解釈される。