Kim Jong-Il was a Genius

I prefer his father and his son but if you think about it ,this man ran a country sanctioned much more harshly than apartheid South Africa and even more isolated ,the country had it's biggest allies all die or become Non Interventionist or and this is what mostly happened become enemies ,the isolation and sanction part is still true to this day yet they still manged to survive and develop nuclear powers even though they were in the midst of a horrible famine

and America has not manged to even step foot there

it's also necessary to point that there hasn't been a country more demonized than it in the existence of the world yet it still functions despite all of the nonsense it has to face