Posted on 07/31/2017 6:57:24 PM PDT by aspasia
. . . there are new signs that diplomacy and sanctions are not only failing to deter Pyongyang from building up its nuclear arsenal, but there is growing evidence the country’s economy is actually improving. . .
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Getting some of that US Taxpayer cash that obama gave Iran. Yea!
Targets?
Difficult to fight a war with people who have little or nothing. Then they have nothing to lose.
Target the fat boy dictator over there, little reason to go after the dirt poor civilians.
Potemkin lights?
So it appears that one city is lit up and the rest of the country is still dark.
Now, new IMPROVED Tree Bark Soup..!!
The black market is growing in N Korea. That’s what is tugging up at the economy.
And if you want to live in Pyongyang, you have to know someone very important to be able to move there.
Yeah, only the elite live there. Then too, begs the question as to what exactly do they do?
true - the biggest export for NK is slave labor... they send slaves to China, Russia and all over middle east to work construction, mining, logging, etc.
The hard currency earned is confiscated - this is truly an evil regime.
Spy on each other?
Major “trading” partners - The top export destinations of North Korea are China ($2.34B), India ($97.8M), Pakistan ($43.1M), Burkina Faso ($32.8M) and Other Asia ($26.7M). The top import origins are China ($2.95B), India ($108M), Russia ($78.2M), Thailand ($73.8M) and the Philippines ($53.2M)
This is not to mention Iran and other “under the table” partners in weapons.
That’s horrible. Poor kids. Meanwhile, their ‘dear leader’ is a fat punk.
The starving kids warship him. It’s like the unwashed Democrats worshiping the Kennedys.
I realize. It’s sad.
Maybe encourage the North Koreans to travel to the South to see what the do not have.
“The corollary: the more developed a people are the more they have to lose and the less they are willing to make war. Give people prosperity and they will want peace.”
I believe this is true. I used to box a bit, and the people you don’t want to fight are those who have nothing to lose. The toughest fighters often come from the lowest socioeconomic rungs.
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