This is the third part of a series which will attempt to dive into some of the details of information access and consumption in North Korea, strive to explain the relevance of unprecedented level of illicit access among North Koreans to foreign media, and address the role of information in North Korea’s future. You can read part one here and part two here.

North Korean watchers and scholars have predicted various North Korean collapse scenarios, along with conditions that will most likely lead to regime collapse. Variations on ‘soft landing,’ ‘hard landing,’ and ‘no landing’ scenarios