The issue of North Korea is not a well-known issue here in the United States, outside of their nuclear proliferation. There are very few experts on North Korea itself, and those who are experts are not well-heard in Washington, mostly because there are so few of them and it is not a pressing issue. Knowledge within North Korea (especially of the outside world) is non-existent, even though there have been recent increases in communication through cell phones.
I don't know that public knowledge would help on this issue, since no one really knows anything about it, and it is regarding a completely different set of people who have a different culture and don't necessarily know what they want or need.
I think applying Fung & Wright's model to this issue is extremely difficult because of the lack of information both within North Korea, and coming out of it. No one knows exactly what is going on, even though we have countless stories from refugees. No single person can know every little detail.
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