All of this activity may be having some result: Pyongyang apparently exhibits some signs of prosperity and even normalcy that would be unremarkable in any other nation.
Ending two-plus decades of unremarkable quarterbacking or even just starting for a few seasons is a lot to throw upon the shoulder-pads of a 22-year-old, even one with Griffin's dazzling ability.
Not even the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei--a stridently anti-American but unremarkable cleric plucked from the religious ranks 14 years ago to fill the shoes of his giant predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini--is fully in control.