Back in the mid-1990s they went through a four-year-long famine called the &quot;march of suffering&quot; in which somewhere between hundreds of thousands and several million people starved to death (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;North_Korean_famine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;North_Korean_famine</a>). Nobody really knows how many died.<p>But the regime is still there, you know? The North Korean people are so thoroughly indoctrinated not even an apocalyptic famine could shake them. I&#x27;m not sure exactly how bad things would have to get to pierce that level of belief.