The only thing stopping this from being really funny is how awful the life of the average North Korean is.
My point was that North Korea is borderline third world on par with other countries in the region.
To put those famine figures in perspective, that's roughly the equivalent of half of California perishing from starvation during the mid-1990s (at a national scale -- if you prefer to think at a more regional scale it's like losing SF from the Bay Area).
[1] See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine for a quick overview
In any sufficiently-long comment thread, the probability of someone making $STATEMENT, approaches 1.
In NK, they never had many fridges (except for the most lucky) and the electricity is reliably unreliable.
And it kind of goes downhill from this point.