If you look into Enver Hoxha’s Albania, it was actually quite similar in style to North Korea. He essentially cut ties with USSR after Stalin’s death and heavily criticized USSR for not being commie enough. And letter cut ties with China for not being true commies.
I'm not too informed on Hoxha's Albania, so I will concede the point.
I don’t agree with Hitler/Mussolini thingy. They had relatively capitalist economies (though state directed). North Korea has still totally socialist economy.
They had
technically capitalist economies, but only in some senses of the word. "Relatively capitalist" is a stretch. They were also both, for example, obsessed about self-sufficiency. Hitler in particular, which makes some sense when you consider his world view combined with the domestic suffering in Germany in WW1. *They also both did what North Korea did (and the Soviet Union did), which is to subsume worker's unions into the state, to be run by and completely dominated by its own needs.
On North Korea, I very much disagree. There is no worker ownership of the means of production, so it basically, by definition, can't be a socialist economy. Having five year plans (or whatever North Korea operates on) and a lack of private property does not mean it's socialist.
Edit: *