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SunsetKittens t1_ja2uydd wrote

Houses and apartments are cool. But North Korea really needs more food at the moment. It's been a recurring problem. It's all mountains there. Harder to grow food in mountains. So you need to trade for food. But what are you going to trade? When your communist system can't seem to get any competitive industries going?

I mean the globe is hella competitive now. Even powerful nations get an industry wiped out every now and then because another powerful nation did it better. North Korea? Fuck man I don't know.

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No-Economics4128 t1_ja3oczh wrote

It is not even communist system at this point. It is some weird feudal lord, isolationist, leader worshipping regime. The communists are authoritarian, but there is some kind of check and balance between the politburo (there are usually 4 positions, and each of those guys try to undermine the other 3). This is a 30 something years old assholes doing whatever he feel like doing and no one oppose it.

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TheAbcedarian t1_ja31gou wrote

I can’t wait to see NK die and the Korean Peninsula reassembled.

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TryEfficient7710 t1_ja4gsxs wrote

Imagine how much a humanitarian burden that'd be for South Korea.

I hope NK doesn't bring SK down with it.

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TheAbcedarian t1_ja4ls11 wrote

SK needs to reboot their power structure anyhow and it will, necessarily, be painful.

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autotldr t1_ja2txfr wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)


> North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilised young labourers to launch a new housing project in Pyongyang, state media said on Sunday, as he pushes for an ambitious plan to build 50 000 homes in the capital despite deepening economic hardships.

> In 2021, Kim unveiled a plan to build 50 000 new homes in Pyongyang by 2025, and state media reported the completion of the first 10 000 new apartments in 2022, including an 80-floor skyscraper.

> The new housing project would serve as "Another proud page in the history of youth movements" and a symbol of the country's socialist revolution and "Political struggle", Kim said.


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FaustTriumphant t1_ja3e2dc wrote

>"[Kim] mobilised the young labour units, called dolgyeokdae or "Shock Brigade"... thanking some 100 000 young men who volunteered to join the plans."

Ha! Sure, they "volunteered!" Totally not corvée/conscripted labor at all guys!

As for the "shock brigades," I quote Joshua Stanton in an article he wrote about the construction of a tourist resort KJU built AFTER the ban on tourism in NK.

>"just stop here, mid-sentence, and ponder the idiocy of taking people away from their normal jobs that might involve useful work to build a fucking resort hotel and then having the gall to call them “shock troop brigades”..."

https://freekorea.us/2018/12/of-course-kim-jong-uns-tourist-resorts-will-fail-of-course-we-can-help-with-that/

It reminds me of this cheesily-militaristic, Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade-style speech NK gave in regard to a ski resort they built ten years ago.

https://www.piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/slave-blog-economic-policy-roundup

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mato10s t1_ja72w3z wrote

>men who volunteered

yeah i always wana laught when i see article abou NK and this words show up.

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Andy900_2 t1_ja44azy wrote

If there’s a “political struggle” when there’s only one party, then whose fault could it possibly be…

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Orqee t1_ja71dl1 wrote

Same question. Ya had war 70 years ago, so everyone else,.. just take chill pill and feed ya ppl. Is the South Korea proof enough that they have nothing to worry about. Ah yes but in that case who would kept little Kimchi as warlord.

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teetzel t1_ja3o7ml wrote

Wouldn't it be cheaper to build a light rail commuter line to one of china's already built ghost cities?

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TheS3KT t1_ja6q2kc wrote

He can't waive around his nukes for sanctions relief as the West is preoccupied with Russia.

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Orqee t1_ja718cu wrote

So,… there is money for ICBMs but not for ppl. Kim you rediculus excuse for a parasite.

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