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North Korea is under embargo, meaning that fuel is ridiculously expensive. They're actually not as short of many goods as you've probably been led to believe (
by crdoconnor 10y ago
North Korea is under embargo, meaning that fuel is ridiculously expensive.
They're actually not as short of many goods as you've probably been led to believe (they're not starving for instance, and they have access to a pretty wide variety of manufactured goods), but fuel is in very short supply.
- dTal 10y ago>they're not starving for instance Source? North Korean malnutrition and starvation is widely documented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine#Stunted_growth_of_North_Koreans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine#Stunted_gr... http://www.npr.org/2012/12/10/166760055/hunger-still-haunts-north-korea-citizens-say http://www.npr.org/2012/12/10/166760055/hunger-still-haunts-... http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/04/23/2012042300587.html http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/04/23/2012...