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To: GeronL
Context and perspective:

North Korea has to set up a fake soap factory for photo ops because they don't have a real one. Yet they claim to have successfully built nuclear weapons and long range delivery vehicles.

35 posted on 12/20/2011 1:47:16 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Most of the real factories have been shut down for a long time but the workers still have to show up to get “paid” and avoid being sent to the concentration camps.


38 posted on 12/20/2011 1:51:12 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Pan_Yan
Another fake company Pyeonghwa Motors (Hangul : 평화자동차) (Hancha : 平和自動車), (a Korean language word for "peace", also spelled Pyonghwa) is one of only two car manufacturers and dealers in North Korean automotive industry. It is a joint-venture in Nampo between Pyonghwa Motors of Seoul (South Korea), a company owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, and the North Korean Ryonbong General Corp. The joint venture produces small cars under licence from Fiat and Brilliance China Auto,[1], a pick-up truck and an SUV using complete knock down kits from Chinese manufacturer Dandong Shuguang, a Mercedes-Benz/SsangYong design luxury cars. Pyeonghwa has the exclusive rights to car production, purchase, and sale of used cars in North Korea. However, most North Koreans are unable to afford a car. Because of the very small market for cars in the country, Pyeonghwa's output is reportedly very low. In 2003, only 314 cars were produced even though the factory had the facilities to produce up to 10,000 cars a year.[2] Erik van Ingen Schenau, author of the book Automobiles Made in North Korea, has estimated the company's total production in 2005 at not more than around 400 units. .... Meanwhile it is the only company that advertises (billboards, TV commercials(??)) in an effort to show NK people that their country has such a capability. .... lol
42 posted on 12/20/2011 1:55:11 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Pan_Yan
Arms are pretty much their only real industry.
48 posted on 12/20/2011 2:03:23 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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