From Past bread notables:

>>6541615 (pb)

>“Today, independence becomes the fateful issue of dying or surviving under the double, triple-layered pressures imposed by hostile forces. It is also a serious issue of giving up the feat of constructing the powerful country halfway or finishing it to the end.”

>The North Korean people would have been forced to accept a “miserable fate worse than death” if the party had taken a step back from the path of independence, the Rodong continued.

>“The lesson of some countries including Iraq and Libya clearly shows that no matter how they ingratiate themselves with great powers, they eventually end up with facing bloody upheaval and the national ravages,” the Rodong said………

>https://www.nknews.org/2019/05/north-korea-must-secure-independence-or-face-miserable-fate-rodong-sinmun/

Reading that, i consider this a Q proof showing that NK was under the thumb of foreign governments (2 or 3) and they are still striving to win that independence.