Pretty much the same...
After decades of mismanagement, the North relies heavily on international food aid to feed its population, while continuing to expend resources to maintain an army of about 1 million. North Korea's long-range missile development and research into nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and massive conventional armed forces are of major concern to the international community.
1. Dictatorship
2. Power obsessed - spending most of GNP on weapons while citizenry starves
3. Dangerous neighborhood
4. Threat to the world
5. No longer economically viable in the modern economy or political structure of the world.
6. Brutal to it's own people
I could go on :-), but I'd say we have a match. Now the only thing I can't find is one reason to defend these kinds of regiemes... That's way too much of a stretch. It can make intelligent people sound like morons.