Believe what you will, that's freedom I suppose. And a marginal distrust of government is generally healthy. However I've been to S. Korea and visited several N. Korean state run businesses all over Asia, where the employees are kept in compounds on the site of the businesses and never allowed to leave.
Their families are "watched" lest they try to flee. This shit is no joke, and not a good fodder for constructing wild conspiracies. Stalin did a terrible thing once upon a time by creating a massive propaganda campaign that launched that whole damn family into "godhood" in the eyes of their populace. A slow poison we're really starting to feel the effects of.
As for good things? Sadly, their aren't many. The food I suppose. And very beautiful landscapes no one is safe to go enjoy, lest they be labeled a spy and imprisoned.
This poor quality of life is part of the reasons employees abroad in other Asian nations are kept so isolated... so far as they know what's outside of those doors is no better (or worse) than what they face at home. And they're allowed no opportunity to discover otherwise.
It's tragic, and the more sanctions we lump on the more the populace (not Kim) suffer. Because people who believe their leader is a god will suffer any injustice he lumps down on them. </3