Alarm at North Korea's nuclear threat But there's no need to head for the bunker just yet, if the Economist's analysts have it right. They see one big green reason for hope - "Capitalism is seeping through the bamboo curtain." A new class of traders and merchants has the power to destabilise Mr Kim's regime. But they'll need help; and the West should don its saboteur goggles and start burrowing. Here's what the Economist advise: "taking every opportunity to undermine the regime...So outsiders should pay for North Koreans to travel and to acquire skills abroad, support the radio stations that broadcast into the country, back the church networks that supply documentaries and films and turn a blind eye to the smuggling networks and the traders."