North Korean economy struggles ... "unexpectedly." University students sent to work.

North Korea has shut down its universities for the next 10 months and sent students to work in factories, agriculture and the construction sector as it struggles to rebuild its economy. Pyongyang has told the North Korean people that the nation will have achieved its aim of becoming "a great, prosperous and powerful nation" in 2012, which marks the 100th anniversary of the founder of the reclusive state, Kim Il-sung.

North Korea is run in the way that the Left prescribes as the answer to America's problems. For some inexplicable reason, that "great, prosperous and powerful nation" status is always a year away.