More North Korea pariah states

What other nations could be like North Korea? Afghanistan in a no-9/11 TL and Albania if the Hoxhaists not only remain but become even more insane are some ideas.
 
South Africa. If there was no Nelson Mandela and events in Zimbabwe followed OTL course but faster, the Whites might try and cling on to power out of desperation. Economic sanctions and ever decreasing living standards aren't going to get you to negotiate a way out if you believe the only alternative you got to hanging on to the status quo is getting killed. Now in that scenario a Civil War is the most likely outcome. But another one would be adopting ever more repressive measures to avoid one, getting stricter sanctions because of it and devolving into Nazi-North-Korea basically.
 
I believe that an essential component for a pariah state is to be disproportionately dangerous and that means nukes.

Perhaps an isolationist Pakistan semi-supported by China?
 
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