[BJClinton]

Juche ideology ... emphasize self-reliance and hyper-nationalism, which are used to argue that N. Korea should be a closed self-sufficient paradise.

Heh. Sounds like some anti-free-trade FReepers.

I think the author over thinks the problems there. The problem was the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Without Soviet subsidies their "paradise" is collapsing, it just takes time for the dominoes to fall.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #11

You have a point.