Communist government told their citizens that shows like Dallas are all fiction. Their citizens are convinced everyone in the world lives like they live. If the North Koreans ever invade South Korea, the invasion will stop at the first grocery store because they will be convinced it is the only one in South Korea and they will need to loot it before someone else does.
When we hire professors from overseas, they are astonished at the number of large grocery stores in town. And rice in small bags. What’s up with that? They buy rice 50 lbs at a time.
I just don’t understand how “diplomats” from North Korea don’t defect after ten minutes in NYC. Must be because the NORK government is holding their families hostage. There were a lot of NORKS in Havana. It sort of like Pyongyang with palm trees. But even in Cuba, the people live a more opulent life style than anyone in NK except for the nomenklatura.