I've figured it out
North Korea is living in a 1960s-style dictatorship, unaffected by the outside world, because the leadership knew in advance that 2016 was going to kill off everyone famous.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.
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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇,
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