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I've been thinking a lot about the North Korean problem lately, and there's one question I just can't answer: what is the immune status of the average North Korean soldier, given their decades of isolation? What kinds of bacteria and viruses do they have there? Do they have computer-viruses??!?!
The isolation is hardly hermetic. I doubt it's a significant issue.
The black market economy happens mostly on the Chinese border, so they'd be exposed to much the same stuff as the Chinks above them.
True, but a lot depends on the internal mobility of North Koreans. Which I suspect isn't that great. The border folks may have more immunity, but surely there are people away from the borders who simply have no significant contact to build immunity to certain things.