I feel sorry for the ordinary people of North Korea. They are being kept in total secrecy about the outside world. There is no internet and the phones available to the ordinary members of the public do not connect to anywhere outside NK. Until a few years ago the only phones were in main post offices and if you wanted to make a call you had to book it a week in advance. The only radio and TV stations available are the official government ones , as are the only newspapers. Tourists are limited to a maximum of 8 per group and can only stay in the country for 5 days including the days of arrival and departure so only 3 full days. Each group of tourists has to be accompanied at all times by 2 official guides , these guides tell them where they can go, what they can do and who they can talk to. Obviously the only people they get to talk to are stooges planted by the government to tell them what the government wants them to hear. Tourists have mobile phones and computers confiscated on arrival and do not get them back until they leave the country again.
Most North Koreans do not even know that there are any other countries in the world apart from the 2 Koreas, China, Russia and the Great Satan USA. They are continuously told that their home country has the best standard of living and the most advanced technology in the world and have no way to find that it is not true.
The truth is that NK is close to starvation and the next harvest is a disaster .
This of course does not apply to the elite and those in power, they have a separate economy paid for by NKs arms sales. They sell arms and ammunition to anyone who can pay cash in US $ , this cash is returned to NK in diplomatic bags and used to fund the missile program and provide luxuries for the privileged few, while the rest starve.