After Osama died and before the rise of ISIS I feel like they tried to hammer North Korea down as the biggest threat to America, they just seem to be...chilling? Like at this point it's obvious that they aren't going to nuke anyone and that their nuclear weapons are purely for defense and not offense.
You always hear weird shit like "every man in North Korea must have King Jong-un's haircut or they will die" or "If a man in North Korea has Kim Jong-un's haircut he'll be killed' or "the North Koreans are told that North Korea won the World Cup and that a member of the "royal family" scored the winning goal" "their people are going hungry. their people are poor. they have fake grocery stores" "they think the "royal family" are Gods!" and the more friendly Trump has become the more it's becoming apparent that the country isn't so bad and most of what we hear is just anti-NK propaganda.
In photos they're always happy, the men are all in nice suits, they have festivals, they even VOTE, people will try to claim that "they think they vote but the results are always rigged in the Kim family's favor" when that's not true. They've lost power before. But then they got it back because it's clear that the population likes how they're ruled.
In reality, it's just a country that is very harsh on criminals. Unlike Americans, they don't waste their taxpayer dollars keeping them comfortable. You do the crime you do the time.
It's weird how we always hear about how terrible socialist countries are and how brutalized their people are yet every time the United States sponsors a coup the overthrow their government it ALWAYS results in the complete and utter downfall of the entire country. Remember Libya and Gaddafi? When the United States helped the rebels assassinate him and "take back to the government" only for it to turn out that everything America said about him was a straight up lie and Libya soon went into complete shambles overrun by terrorists who later turned their back on America and blew up the embassy in Benghazi.