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 North Korea has performed quite well in the war against the UN. 
 Has it? 
 Yes, and if this keeps up, the DPRK will outlive the UN. 
 Care to elaborate what is 'this' and how they are going to outlive it? 
 The entire UN is literally bought by the US and satellites, if this continues to escalate to the level of a circus, the organization will simply collapse. That way the DPRK will outlive the UN. 
 No it hasn't, it ended up as a shithole that survives on foreign aid, all their militaristic chestbeating is just to get some aid in exchange for calming down, it's literally like a child in the mall screaming to get a lollipop 
 this is a propaganda-fed oversimplified childish view of the situation 

sadly it's not far from what most us politicians think  
 Then what is the "real" situation? 
 Assessing economic developments in North Korea is extremely difficult. The country has not published any regular national account statistics since the 1960s or any budget information since the early 1980s. Almost all the Korean, English, French, and German literature on the matter is extremely anti DPRK biased (for obvious reasons). I'd send you a Chinese paper but you can't read Chinese. Here is one of the less biased, recent, English pieces as a starting point. In it you'll find a more vibrant economy than you want to believe: 

here's a start:
https://one.oecd.org/document/ECO/WKP%282020%2915/En/pdf 
 Well, presumably their welfare is at the level of Cambodia.