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I’m sure they hide information because they don’t want to share the secrets of their utopia with the outside world.
Suspicions aren't a substitute for data, though, which is why there's such a huge industry in the media surrounding making things up about the DPRK for clickbait. We know they are doing better than in the 90s, during the Arduous March, caused primarily by the dissolution of their largest trading partner, the USSR, but we also know they aren't doing great either.
That's why lifting sanctions and normalizing relations would be the best for the people in Northern Korea. If they didn't fall in the 90s, they likely aren't going to, period, except by millitary means, which would amount to the same genocide the US inflicted upon them in the 50s in all likelihood.