17 Facts About North Korea That Will Blow Your Mind

Everyone's heard about North Korea, the hermit kingdom that hangs off the southeast corner of China.

Condoleezza Rice called it an "outpost of tyranny". George W. Bush said it was one-third of the "axis of evil". And now James Franco and Seth Rogen are releasing a comedy about it, much to Pyongyang's disapproval.

Despite all of that, we really don't know that much about North Korea. But what we do know is rather mindblowing.