North Korea Poses Challenge to U.S. Spy Efforts -- Bloomberg
If Stalin’s Russia was “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” as Winston Churchill described it in 1939, Kim Jong Un’s North Korea 72 years later is an even more inscrutable intelligence target.
The technological revolution that has brought the Internet, smart phones, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the outside world to other repressive regimes has just begun lapping at North Korea’s shores, mostly along the Yalu River on the Chinese border.
“It’s a very hard target,” said U.S. Representative Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican who heads the House intelligence committee, in a telephone interview yesterday. “There is no freedom of movement, in, out or once you’re in; and North Koreans are not very well connected to each other, let alone to the outside world.”
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Update: How did U.S. intelligence not know about Kim Jong-Il's death for TWO DAYS? (and they only found out when it was revealed on TV) -- Daily Mail
My Comment: The Americans are not the only ones who are challenged in penetrating North Korea's secrets .... the Chinese, South Koreans, Japanese, etc. have also not been successful.
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