[a-priori]

When I saw the pictures of Kim Jong-il surrounded by a store filled with fresh fruit while his citizens starve, I was reminded of the final years of the rule of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu. In Ceauşescu's case, to some extent it appears his lieutenants went to great lengths to present him with a sanitized view of the state of his country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceauşescu#Tensions

I'm curious if this is also the case in North Korea.