North Korea, Country in a Long Coma · Global Voices
Lee Yoo Eun

Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution blog wrote about how the dictatorship in North Korea has survived decades despite mass  starvation and economic failure. The author, quoting parts from the book Nothing to Envy, commented that the North Korean iron curtain which has been much more impenetrable than that of Eastern Europe was the major contributing factor.