I’m not sure that North Korea can afford cliffs any more and they don’t have the electricity to operate elevators to go to the top of any of their buildings.

North Korea and Zimbabwe are in competition to be the most ill-managed countries on the planet. The remnants of the former Soviet Union can’t even approach the level of incompetence in leadership of these two nations, although it could be argued that Mugabe should lead because his nation fell further as a result of a wealth of natural resources that North Korea doesn’t possess.

North Korea needs more of everything except weapons. The Chinese have been supporting them, but that may stop unless Kim starts acting a bit more rational.

Some think that this test was part of an internal struggle withing the leadership in North Korea, and Kim did it to demonstrate that he still controls things after his stroke.