Tips to grow your North Korean Startup

Interestingly this article could serve as a template for 'Tips to grow your illicit drug business in the USA' with very few changes:

- you may get shot but police may simply take some of the goods;

- remove any labels of origin to reduce potential charges;

- contemplate various smuggling strategies;

- don't work with people you care about (friends and family);

- be careful where you store your money;

Banned economic activity is similar everywhere, it seems.

I guess it's thematically close enough for you to cast whataboutism, but no further.

In NK you have to worry about those closest to you monitoring you, you also have to worry about if being caught your entire family being labeled as bad blood. Some punishments go multiple generations deep.

Conducting 'illicit activity' in an authoritarian country vs a judicial one is a very different experience, in both the activities banned (almost everything in NK, even thinking), the risks, the punishments, and the enemies.

Doesn't really set in until you hear stories from NK defectors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTEDYEwfiwk