Most of us understand reporting on North Korea can be difficult. The majority of internal information is considered a state secret, media access is extremely limited, and its people rarely speak to outsiders (and when they do its only they’re accompanied by minders). However, these difficulties seem to have created an unfortunate ‘anything goes’ policy towards reporting on the DPRK. Often this  articulates in an almost ‘comedy’ style reporting of North Korea (especially regarding its leaders) or through articles that demonstrate a lack of even  basic fact checking (as NKNews recently highlighted).  Now, The Economist  enters the