North Korea's economy sits at the center of this Counting the Cost episode, filmed shortly after the death of longtime leader Kim Jong-il left his young, untested son in charge. The program looks at what a leadership change means for a country already isolated by sanctions and dependent on China, without pretending to know the answer. Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, and David Gordon, the firm's head of research, sit down to unpack the succession alongside two other economic flashpoints of the moment: the prospect of an oil embargo on Iran and Hungary's scramble for a new IMF loan to stay solvent. The three stories are treated as facets of the same problem, how governments and markets react when political risk spikes in a country that matters more than its size suggests. There is no field reporting from Pyongyang here, just studio analysis built around interviews, but the guests bring specific, named expertise on political risk rather than general commentary.