They economize on food, apparently.
Juche philosophy:
“Military FIRST”
It’s not a country with a military.
It’s a military with a country.
ALL the Tree Bark Soup you can drink.
Those “missiles” were all operational, fully loaded, ready to go...
Or were they empty metal tubes meant to impress “dear leader” and anyone else watching the tape???
China the Enabler
must end
Kim Jong Prefix is untenable.
Recent events prove yet again that MacArthur had it right and Ridgeway and Truman had it wrong. Back in the Korean War NK had no nukes, China had no nukes, and America had it all but no will to be decisive. MacArthur agitated for action and got himself fired. Our generals in Vietnam were careerists who did not agitate for decisive action but they should have.
Man, I can dig it.
So can Seoul, when reunification comes; good source of revenue to fund rebuilding the north.
Much of their funding comes from their various criminal activities that they do around the world.
Especially after the agreement NK made with the Clinton US government.
A total mystery, Clinton told us he stopped them.
They might not be as powerful as they look but then again maybe they are.
For a long time they were propped up by the Russians and Chinese. I think China has only recently begun to pull back. They put almost everything into the military while the people suffer.
Don’t forget that North Korea was the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid under Clinton. I would not be surprised if Iran was under Obama. I even suspect there are nations still supporting N. K.
Don’t be fooled. The Russians used paper mockups of rockets and missiles in their military parades before the USSR fell, and the Serbs fooled our Air Force in Clinton’s Wag the Dog War with mockups of tanks. Kim can build a lot of plastic missiles with nothing in them for a million bucks.
If I recall correctly, North Korea’s federal mint prints off US $100 bills totaling billions every year.
When most of your population is given a starvation diet to sustain them and no electricity at night and 100’000’s keep as slave labor, it’s not hard to fund a military....
Can someone explain these rare earth minerals and why we don’t have any?
Billions from the United States helped a lot.
How?
Guns not butter.
“How the hell has North Korea managed to build a massive military stockpile?”
About the best timeline of this is at this site:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_North_Korean_nuclear_program
There are some points left out though. Bill Clinton in the early 90’s shipped a number of supercomputers to North Korean so they could generate power to aide in their agricultural programs. The machines were up graded from the ability to enrich industrial capacity to weapons grade.
red