"Talk about brilliant! His country is starving and he is preventing fishing boats from going out...just so he can fire off his stinking archaic missiles!"
Maybe he is using the missiles to kill and pre-cook the fish...
Your point can be made even further. Under Communism, North Korean fisherman are paid the same whether they catch 1 fish or ten thousand.
But the more fish that they catch, the more that they have to personally unload, by hand, carry up the dock's gangplank, and pack in ice.
Over time, NK fisherman have figured out that if they catch fewer fish, that they have less work to do.
Pays the same either way. So they catch less fish.