IS NORTH KOREA NEAR COLLAPSE? “North Korea’s potential for anarchy vastly exceeds that of Iraq’s. Iraq is not going to suffer a general breakdown of its urban economy—sending millions into the surrounding country-side to live and die as hunter-gatherers. But North Korea has somehow survived at the edge of that nightmare scenario for nearly two decades. And it has nukes.”

UPDATE: Skepticism, and further information, here. Also here.