Sorry if you are finding some answers aggressive, please understand that a lot of people who wander in here argue in bad faith

But from what I can tell you are genuinely interested in learning

As for famines, there hasn't been one in the DPRK since the 90's which was due to weather and not being able to replace destroyed crops with food imports because they had lost their largest trading partner during the collapse of the USSR

I'd also point out the hypocrisy in that much of the 'north korea no food' propaganda is produced by the US, a country were people are currently starving and not because there is a lack of food due to famine, but rather food is being intentionally withheld from the people by the regime, a policy more 'evil' than any enacted by the DPRK

So even those here who my not be full supporters of the DPRK state can acknowledge the double standards and hypocrisy that when any mention of North Korea is brought up people immediately jump to thought-terminating '1984 authoritarian' clichés, yet when stuff about the US is brought up unrelated to its politics you don't often get a mass of people pointing out the authoritarian nature and crimes of the US state that are worse than anything done by the DPRK e.g. Higher % of their population imprisoned than any other country, forced labour in said prisons, arming and supporting the perpetrators of a genocide

No lol what. Are you permanently stuck in the 90s? The arduous march ended more than 2 decades ago.

This garbage is the equivalent of saying "tinyman square" in 2025, it's clear that you have made zero effort to educate yourself on the country and are letting your chauvinism do the speaking for you.