Possible? They already imploded: N.Korea is dark [remember?] http://marketpower.typepad.com/mark...fight-against-markets-and-private-wealth.html The kids have stunted growth from malnutrition. This last bastion of Marxism is reduced to nuke blackmail for food. -sad
North Korea is already dead, what we see now is a zombie. As for civil war, meh. Hopefully one side is strong enough to quickly gain victory. They can then liquidate their political rivals in good ol' Stalinist fashion and continue on in the grand tradition of dictators.
Politics aside, regular people who live there are no different from you or me. Just a luck of the draw what country's hospital you were born at.
Well, my parents being in the US and not in Long Duck Dong provience NK might have a smidge more to do with it than luck.