How does a country like Nort Korea seem to have endless money for its army and develop nuclear weapons despite being one of the most sanctionned country in the world?

Question

How does a country like Nort Korea seem to have endless money for its army and develop nuclear weapons despite being one of the most sanctionned country in the world?

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Answer 1

It really doesn’t.

Soldiers are conscripted and, to all intents and purposes, aren’t paid. Weapons are mostly ones given to them by China and the USSR during the Cold War.

They have the nuclear weapons program precisely because their conventional military is so weak. The threat of nuclear retaliation is their biggest defense against invasion.