Here's something a bit more tell. Bring up Google Earth and look at Seoul. By the shadows from the buildings it appears the satellite picture was taken in the afternoon. You'll see the normal urban traffic (three traffic jams if you look hard enough), but nothing out of the ordinary for a capital city. Now look at Pyongyang. The shadows are identical, yet there are extremely few cars on the road. This picture says a thousand word.
I’ve been watching many videos of N.Korea. Leaves you breathless seeing the lack of life in the whole country. It is really beyond describing...they are not only in a severe time warp...but since all the food donated by other countries goes to the military and the elites in order to present a picture to the world that they are not starving there...when you see the throngs of people for their parades and such...know that they all walk to the ceremonies.
In the countryside people are like walking sombies...because they are starving...except for the minders and the people they position for the cameras. But if you look at the surroundings it is very evident the whole country’s infastructure is in dire straights. No electric, plumbing, and the buildings are old and primarily empty. You just cannot put into words the desolation that is there.
Kim II is up to no good now because he can no longer even feed the army and elites...further sanctions are working but at an awful cost to those in the countryside. We can only hope that the elites and the military will feel the empty bellies the people in the countryside do and maybe they themselves will turn on Kim and his administration. I do wonder if that isn’t what the International community is hoping will happen...and they are standing by to help when it reaches that tipping point. It seems to have gone about as far as it can without another mass starvation among the people.....already many are dying...it is far beyond sad.
If Kim did not have nukes and China wasn’t using N.Korea as a buffer zone...the International Community would have gone in years ago. I hate Kim and his administration for what they have done to their country and it’s people...and there are very few things in life I can say I hate.