Becuase it's a global market now, IMO, everything that is shipped out of the USA ought to be marked with the flag prominantly displayed.
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Becuase it's a global market now, IMO, everything that is shipped out of the USA ought to be marked with the flag prominantly displayed.
I remember articles about Communists relabeling charitable food donations 30 or more, years ago. Appropriating the labor of others is, and always has been, the m. o. of these miscreants.
Here we have the government apparatchiks discovering that market capitalism is the best way to move a product into the hands of those who need it.
The last time this method was subjected to ill-considered criticism we sent the Rangers into Somalia where they crushed the merchants and the apparatchiks. Then we met AlQaida which had no trouble moving into the power vacuum that resulted.
I suggest we leave these guys alone. Let them get a taste of "profit". The food will get eaten by hungry North Koreans anyway.
How sad that the poor are not eating tonight, but those who have money will do so.
It does make one ask how to help those who actually need the help.
It is the same problem all over the world, not only in North Korea.
A bit off topic, but when I look at these pictures, it is really striking how drab and grey that country is.
Take a look, in particular, at the picture that shows the back of a guy in a green shirt (3rd or 4th one down I think)... that is an area described as a "market"... look how dreadfully bleak that picture looks. And maybe there are selling the sacks of food aid, because there is NOTHING ELSE. It looks like that's all they have there. Maybe a few bags of rice or grain. What a God-awful place that must be to live...it's all grey and dreary and cold and empty. Have you EVER seem a picture taken inside NK where someone is smiling? I never have. Not much reason to smile it good ol' NK, I s'pose.
Bones
North Korea understands that Barnum was right.
I see our government has learned nothing new in the last 50 years.
I defy anyone to prevent the operation of markets except at gunpoint and at great cost.
It is natural, unavoidable, and in my view even for the best that this food has wound up being sold in a market. At least it provides for SOME sort of rational and efficient rationing into the population.
The alternative is distribution by government decision, and really, no government can have any possible idea how to distribute rice - or anything else - efficiently. And in most cases will just be distributed either stupidly, venaly, or by pure favoritism. None of these is preferable to market mechanisms.
It is really encouraging to see this market in operation in North Korea.
Free advice to South Korea: Just invade North Korea if you care at all for your fellow Koreans.
We'll be happy to loan you some B-2s...
Hey Tiger rack your video
Sound like to me North Korea is one backward country that not their fault it more like Little Kim fault