User blog comment:Jeffwang16/Check with the community/@comment-1992729-20120102190555/@comment-3582624-20120104181801

It won't collapse as easily as, say, the Egyptian dictatorship of Mubarak. Why? Because for almost 70 years now, the North Korean dictators have been brainwashing their people. In the Middle East, the Arab Spring could take place because people had access to the internet. The bloggers played an important role. N-Korea, however, is cut off entirely from the rest of the world. They are starving while their leaders feast in their palaces, and they have no way of organising a rebellion. It's a police state, it has no freedom at all and a strong army too. The only reason for the regime to callapse would be when the army turns against Kim Jong-un. Which I don't see happening any time soon.