I heard about this great "collapse" when I was stationed in South Korea 10 years ago. The theory reminds me of global warming. It sounds good, but no one can quite put their finger on it.
an-nyeong-ha-se-yo,
~Corey
Yeah, I did not expect N. Korean to collapse in previous two occasions. I was right to predict at the time that Kim Jong-il would make the regime more oppressive. However, he could not cope with massive famine which followed a few years later. From that time on, the system is breaking up. Now not a small number of N. Koreans watch S. Korean melodrama on bootleg CD's.