"What condition is their military really in, when reporting problems might cause Kim to frown?"
A country where his Grandfather had someone shot for "leftist-rightest tendencies", where his father had someone shot for "placing a statue of the Good Leader in the shade" and a man who, in a couple of years, has had his half-brother murdered abroad and his uncle shot for unspecified crimes
SMILE!!! and keep on SMILING would be my advice.....................
(fot the avoidance of doubt) Happy Happy Heathrow Harry (notebook in hand of course)