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I see your point, but in the case of North Korea exactly the opposite is happening. For decades the political elite had an iron grip on the country. But then sa
by woodandsteel 10y ago
I see your point, but in the case of North Korea exactly the opposite is happening. For decades the political elite had an iron grip on the country. But then sanctions help push the country into more of a free enterprise system, and that is weakening the government's power.
- jaredklewis 10y agoIt seems speculative. How do you know that, should there have been no sanctions, these free enterprise systems would not have been introduced anyway? Or even know that would not have been developed more than they are now? With so many huge changes both inside and outside DPRK during the past decades, to credit the gradual introduction free market systems to sanctions seems tendentious.
- petre 10y agoSanctions are always better than war. People adapt. Or negotiate their way out. Just look at Iran. Free market in NK? Maybe free as in the state is too busy caring right now and market as in flea market.
- crdoconnor 10y agoKJI was pushed (by the famine). KJU actually likes the idea of growing a parallel market based economy. He could just as easily have decided to clamp down on it.