Ping!
The parallel between Chia and Ceaucescu are not apt.
Romanians had access or knowledge from other Eastern Bloc news outlets. They knew what had happened in East Berlin, Czechoslovokia, Hungary before it hit their nation and the end came for the dictator.
North Korea by comparison is a Soviet gulag. They even consider information originating from China as criminal. There is no parallel between the final days of any communist eastern bloc nation and North Korea. I suspect that if the DPRK fell the ROK would be met with catastrophic costs and generations of former DPRK citizens that would never be able to adapt to life once their great lie was exposed as a great lie.