I just watched this video made by a photo journalist about North Korea. Many of the film bits were taken and smuggled out by a North Korean man who wanted the world to know just how awful it is there. From starving families, prison camps, brutal murder and cannibalism to state run farming of opium crops (forbidding farmers to grow food on up to 17,000 acres of prime farmland). Estimates at that time (I think it was made in 2001) were that NK party officials were pocketing $500 million to a billion bucks per year from illegal trafficking.
I also recently read that NK has a treasure trove of precious metals.
So now I'm going "hmmm...." Where have we seen the same kind of set up as an excuse for war before....?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R0i8eiyJmLI The video is about 45 minutes long and very, very disturbing.