Interesting story , but very unhealthy !
North-Korea is a suspicous country , mathematicly not correct.
9 million people , 1 million in army (paid by government), a lot in jail, how many left to contribute on GDP ? , not enough to be in balance.
China as visible donator. Imho , everytime North-Korea is in the news, real news is somewhere else.
I'm not worrying to much about them. This story is to predictable for me. I'm worried about unpredictable story's.
No fear mongoring for me. :-)