1/ Both are militarized and aggressive.
2/ Both execute their own citizens.
3/ Both have father-to-son power transfer.
4/ Both have a phenomenal income difference between rich and poor.
5/ Both need a "bogey man" to scare the populace. The North Koreans
have the USA and the USA has terrorism.
6/ Both governments have no problems spying into every detail of the
personal lives of their inhabitants.
7/ Both have huge, well stocked and pervasive prison systems.
8/ Both have drug problems.
9/ Both have a large portion of their populace living below the poverty line.
10/ Both have weapons of mass destruction.