On the subject of North Korea, sort of: one of these days I'll type up an account of my roommate in the dorms at Cal, who was living there using a stolen ID/reg card and thieving from all the students. When they kicked him out, and as he was gathering his final things, he told me he was a North Korean spy and that he had been sent to UCB to get keys to all the departments. He complained about capitalist decadence and drinking. Other stuff, too. He was a nut, but it wasn't a bad story.