When Kim Jong Il croaks, I bet the govt falls apart. He's chosen his 26 year old son (with no experience whatsoever) to succeed him. It's a very small group of people who are actually benefitting from the status quo, and millions of people who are suffering from it. Something's gotta give.
And I say let them talk all the shit they want. If they actually have the balls to fire on our allies or bases, we can bomb them into the stone age... oh wait, they're already in the stone age