I don’t know who said it first, but it is often repeated with resignation that the only predictable thing about North Korea is – that it is unpredictable. One thing that is for sure is that it is startlingly poorly understood; by the West, by the US – and often even by the South Koreans.
After having researched quite a bit about it by now, it seems to me that the common beliefs that we all subscribe to about North Korea are wrong more often than they are right. Therefore, this is a bid to topple some of those misconceptions.
Some Common Misconceptions about North Korea