North Korea – Nothing to Study February 24, 2019 Jed Lea-Henry Rebelling desperately against the dying light of their usefulness, your average North Korean studies department has gradually become a hollowed-out shell of intellectualism. Atmospheres of fetid starvation where professors and researchers pick desperately over the fleshless carcasses of decades-old publications; where any depths can be plunged, and any lengths can be gone to in the hope of prolonging dying careers.