Not followed there
North Korea is one of the most isolated countries in the world. Official data and statistics from the region are usually not released internationally, which leaves a certain mystery about how the regime manages to stay on a mainly capitalist globe.
This isolation also contributes to limiting information about the country - and further speculation about what is really going on inside. Often there is still a caricatured construction of the country that bears prejudice from a Western - and anti-Communist - view of the world.