Kim Jong-il Part 3: Nuclear Armed
Real Dictators
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Kim Jong-Il's Regime Survival
North Korea became very good at selling drugs, trafficking people in ivory and later nuclear secrets and weapons. Money siphoned off from the North Korean state lands in accounts of elite members of North Korean society. The money was being used to parcel out goodies among the elite in order to keep them on side. By the early 2000s, life in North Korea is for most people and speakably grim. If you do make a run for it, chances are your neighbors will denounce you. It's actually technically not that difficult to leave North Korea.
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