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.  

 You westerns overestimate russian industrial complex and its pity state. The reality is that it's kind of a walking dead.  The real issue is nukes, that is the only thing that prevents Russia from being fucked really hard.  

 It is better to overestimate your enemy than to underestimate 

 stay coherent  man are you overestimating or underestimating? 

 and how are you supporting these claims ?  any objective economic metrics? 

 You are right of course. Compared to America, Russia isn't even close. 

 https://www.globalfirepower.com/ gives a lot of detailed statistics and shows Russia is a lot higher even than I thought. 

 Various rating systems cannot objectively reflect reality, but, of course, the Russian army is one of the best. Another thing is that in the case of Ukraine it shows itself very strangely, for example, it was obvious to everyone that it was necessary to destroy communications and the energy system of Ukraine, but the fact that the Russian army does it badly suggests some political games behind the screen of a military conflict.

Or, alternatively, with a good army, the Russian command is terribly incompetent.

Even both can be true at the same time. 

 I think it is useful.

Economies can not just switch into wartime economies on a dime. It takes a lot of time and a hell of a lot of changes to occur before a spike in demand flows back into a spike in production. And any spike in demand in Western Europe will be noticed by Russia and met with a spike in demand by Russia. It might be very hard to catch up.

Now I think US production of weapons is pretty high, and the US is making moves to increase and distribute wartime production. They just brought Japan onboard to make jet fighters. 

 Oh no, you are right, they absolutely are losing in the Black Sea.  There is no defense against drones on the surface of the water, during chop, at night, coming in packs.  I don't think any country has a defense against that yet.  It's a very interesting time from a war-technical point of view.