Is North Korea Building Up Its Conventional Military Strength?

It just makes me wonder where all the money is coming from for the Kim regime to build up their nuclear, ballistic missile and conventional military strength like this?  Here may be the most important modernization that did not require any money to get:

Additionally, there is reason to believe that Kim Jung Un has had some success in revitalizing the military by instituting new military leadershipafter a rash of executions removed some of the old brass.

Joseph S. Bermudez, an expert on North Korea’s military, told The Washington Post: “I get a sense that when Kim Jong Un came to power, he looked around and said, ‘We have all these old guys running things who haven’t been in the field for 15 or 20 years. We need people who know what they’re talking about.'”

“Before, you had leaders of special forces who couldn’t run a mile. Now, we see artillery division commanders that actually have an artillery background,” Bermudez continued.  [Business Insider]

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