How North Korea REALLY Sees the World (Deep Dive)

North Korea is often painted as a cartoon villain, a starving nation run by a madman sealed off from the modern world, and certainly such an interpretation of the nation is nothing if not interesting. But what if it's perhaps a bit too simplistic?

We think it is, because for all the absurd pageantry in the missile parade, there is, as we see it, logic at work here.

A worldview that once understood makes the country's actions far more considered than they initially appear. To Pyongyang, every hardship is proof of purity. Every test of endurance and moral victory.