Again, there are the linguistic and cultural problems. I have heard it is the smallest of things that get spies caught.
If infiltration is successful which officer would be willing to place not only his own life in danger but the lives of his grandparents, parents, children, in-laws, cousins, etc.?
Unlike here they all watch each other like hawks. Hungry, ravenously hungry hawks. It’s a place where you get ahead by outing your superiors/peers.
Rocket boy has disposed of anyone who would be willing to take him out. By anti-aircraft fire and hungry dogs He is holding his generals by the short hairs. They are afraid to fart.
That itself makes him ripe for a coup. You scare your underlings too much, and they start to believe they have to take you out, that they and their entire families are already forfeit, and if not today, tomorrow, so they may as well go for it.
I can’t say I know Nork from Souk. But I’m sure that Soukia has its own intelligence agency, and they have specially trained agents who can pass for Nork. They are probably already in place, and are probably working on turning key military personnel as we speak.