“They don’t have the land and resources to farm for their people.”
yes they do, NK is rich in resources. What they lack is the leadership to do anything with it. Plus a HUGE percentage of their GNP is spent on the military.
Their army eats before the babies do.
http://www.agnet.org/library/eb/475/
Only about 20% of NK is arable. Only 1.6% is actually used. They’re still coming off of a famine caused by a lack of fertilizer and fuel. Going to war would cut off food aid and shift resources away from farming making widespread famine in the next year unavoidable.