The graphic below shows an overview of the allies of the North Korean regime abroad. This includes naive parliamentarians and members of NGOs who - consciously or unconsciously - can be exploited by North Korea. Communication channels are important, but not at all costs. This topic is part of a chapter on North Korean intelligence that I wrote for the volume " Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: A Comprehensive Reference ", which will be published shortly and is edited by Bob de Graaff .
"Information at best will always be in some part fragmentary, obsolete, and ambiguous." (Armstrong, Willis C. (et al.): The Hazards of Single-Outcome Forecasting, in: Westerfield Bradford, H. (Ed.), Inside CIA's private world, Yale 1995, p. 242)