[monkeywrench]

Your thoughts on #11-16, please? Are we both wrong? Thanks.

[hoosierham]

By the way, don't the socialists of the world,if not those in the U.S., have a million tons of BS they could send to North Korea?

[Chong]

Thanks for the ping. Wow..... Both of you old timers make some good points. You are not wrong in my opinion, monkeywrench.

It saddens me to no end that the people of N.K. have been reduced to this level of begging for slave wages. Not their first choice. To rub salt on the wound, the little kimchia will get a chunk of their earnings. Some SK business will surely exploit the poor already suffering people of NK and try to take advantage of their dire situation.

Ideally, it is true #13. To be realistic, the older N. Koreans who knew freedom before their capture have long been aware that the life outside is good, but helpless to do anything about it in such a closed society like NK, where children turn their parents in to the gubmint upon detecting any signs of yearning for freedom.

Yes, their worst enemy IS their own govt and they are aware of it, hence the underground movement up there begging for some help from the outside.

People want freedom and that's what fell the Berlin wall and that's what will fall the 38th eventually. Their basic needs like food had not been met for a long time anyway, and they care more about the future of their children than themselves, i.e., so many elderly NK's starved themselves, so their young could eat their fare share of the grass soup.

The economic benefits/pitfalls come after the freedom.