How Long Will North Korea Last?

“The communist government of North Korea, currently bouncing through the headlines once more, was supposed to have gone out of business at least a generation ago.” Canadian journalist Robert Fulford asks how long the DPRK can hang on: It’s now 20 years since The Wall Street Journal ran an article about North Korea’s ‘coming collapse,’ by Nicholas Eberstadt, a distinguished political economist. … Few argued with him. North Korea’s two patrons, Russia and China, had abandoned communism and cut off their aid programs. Obviously, the game was up. Nevertheless, North Korea endures.”