“$40 Million = 80% of NK GDP!” That should be sad, but it’s funny. Kim Jun Un, like most fascists, is not a good manager.
See Venezuela and Zimbabwe for other examples. Extreme inflation, Currency that resembles Play Money, the vast majority of citizens long term unemployed and ultimately unemployable.
And as I’ve touched on before, most of the population of NK has been subjected to malnutrition since the ascendance of Lil’ Kim’s grandpap. It’s become such a problem that it has clearly effected brain development and even the size of the citizenry. You look at the Norks, the military people, and they look physically the size of emaciated 10-year old children playing dress-up in adult clothing.
Compared to South Koreans, the latter are well-fed, larger, taller and better mentally developed than their counterparts as their hardships and deprivations ceased after the war. If Kim was brought down today, it would be almost impossible to assimilate the present population into South Korea. The Norks would remain intellectually and physically stunted and unlikely to substantially intermix with their South cousins, who are as far removed from them across the board as imaginable. The cultural and social impact would be a disaster.
If anyone ever wanted to point to the impact a perfect, totalitarian leftist state can have on a group of citizens over a period of 70 years, North Korea is just the place. Retarded, placid and fearful, more like animals than human beings. What the left wants to do to all people (except for the ruling class, of course).