"What life looks like inside North Korea"

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29. The BBC posted about 2 hours of undercover footage a couple of years ago

that was one of the spookiest things I've ever seen. Pyongyang is a modern high rise city with good light rail and other mass transit jockeying with manageable car traffic. Crowds at the train station were large, very orderly, and quiet. Other places were almost like ghost towns, foreigners being sequestered away from the places ordinary people went. Stores for tourists are clean, well lit, well stocked...and deserted. It was one of the strangest films I'd ever seen.

Some of the footage is in this video from the BBC:

Government functionaries who have lost Kim's favor and managed to escape say the country will eventually collapse suddenly with no warning, but no one can give a time table. I think they are absolutely right, there's only so much people will take from a right wing police state if they get hungry enough, and it appears many of the population are very hungry and have been for a long time. Since Little Kim is such a young man, I think it will likely happen during his regime as people realize he will not do anything better than his father or grandfather and in fact, is considerably worse.

People there are constantly told that the US will attack them any day. Asshole is playing right into this fear and keeping Kim safe.