it may be even worse than that.
they are on one half of a peninsula with the only physical connection to other nations being China and S. Korea.
look at a night time satellite image of that place:
2013 and 99% of the place has no electricity.
young Kim needs to fall back and just make sure his people are fed something besides bull shyt.
I'm fascinated by the minds of dictators. They lust power with such vigor that they are willing to hold back the progress of their own people or subject them to mass starvation to hold on to that power. It's a mindset that seems so foreign to me.