The Lazarus Heist has an engrossing, well-researched podcast. However, like much reporting involving North Korea, it plays into a kind of double-standard that is only reserved for subjects deemed to be "other." North Korea is not the only country with profound inequality, de-facto caste systems, and a political system that doesn't live up to its claims. One notable instance is a segment that mocks the North Korean government for a producing a widely-played jingle to get its citizens excited about entering the tech-age. Similar campaigns exist in all countries, both created by governments and, perhaps more insidiously, by the private sector. It doesn't benefit the quality of this podcast's journalism to imagine that North Korea is the only place where people are brainwashed into supporting the motives of the powers that be... instead it makes the reports seem biased and more interested in taking pot-shots than on reporting.