North Korea is a communist state and the communist ideology was anti-national from the moment of its inception. The famous communist slogan “Workers of the world, unite!” asserted just that – that people should be united by their class, in a Marxist definition of the word – rather than by nationality or ethnicity. In other words, British worker Smith was supposed to understand that his natural ally is not British capitalist Brown, but rather German worker Schmidt and Japanese worker Sasaki, and that Brown is an enemy of all three, along with German capitalist Meyer and a Japanese capitalist Sugimoto.