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Thinking of moving to North Korea?
- ommunist 14y agoHm... But it is the US and the EU who put trade embargoes on buying goods from North Korea. And this is mainly the reason of why people are starving there. THis country made a truly heroic effort of producing EVERYTHING itself. By the way there are thousands of kids like that in Chicago and Bronx.
- steve-howard 14y agoThe US has historically used food aid for North Korea as a bargaining chip; NK tests missiles, US sends less food. Not sure what this source's bias is, but here's a quote: > It has been widely reported that any food aid that arrives in North Korea is diverted away from ordinary citizens and doled out to key constituents, especially in the military. It is precisely for this reason that Pyongyang refuses to allow aid workers the ability to conduct routine monitoring of humanitarian aid delivery. http://www.cnas.org/node/5958 http://www.cnas.org/node/5958
- ommunist 14y agoWould trade embargoes be lifted, NK0reans could provide for themselves, no need for foreign aid. Foreign aid is a source of much corruption in the 3rd world, and you well know it.
- tptacek 14y agoNo there are not thousands of kids like that in Chicago. I assume not the Bronx either. Child starvation deaths in DPRK are common. Child starvation deaths in Chicago are extremely rare and almost uniformly investigated as homicides.
- ommunist 14y agoI lived in Chicago in 1999-2000, so I know what I am saying.
- tptacek 14y agoI've lived in Chicago all my life (on the south side where I grew up, on the north side, and now right up on Austin on the west side), and no you don't. Not to mention that your assertion is so out of whack that you can refute it with a single Google search.
- ommunist 14y agoHm. You probably never went into Harlem. Googling returns this: http://www.mercyhome.org/homeless-youth http://www.mercyhome.org/homeless-youth 2.3 – 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness at least once a year, effecting different ages, races and genders. 1/3 of the total homeless population families with children. 1 in 50 (1.5 million) of the total homeless population are estimated to be under the age of 6. 1.3 - 1.6 million unaccompanied or runaway youth annually. 50,000 youth experience long-term homelessness (six month or more) each year.
- valisystem 14y ago> it is the US and the EU who put trade embargoes on buying goods from North Korea. And this is mainly the reason of why people are starving there. That's not true. People are starving because the government is totally inept in making sure that enough food is produced each year, not because people can't buy it.
- shocks 14y agoHuh? You can't blame how fucked up NK is on the US or the EU. Not at all. >> By the way there are thousands of kids like that in Chicago and Bronx. Yeah, same in Africa and other places too. The difference is that each countries respective government doesn't lump 250,000 of them and their families into prison camps and exploit/torture/execute them.
- ommunist 14y agoThe US has the largest population of detainees in the world per 1000 inhabitants. And most of them are in fact used as slaves. Clean your own house, buddy.
- cryowaffle 14y agoThe author is saying "Read up on North Korea so that your own country doesn't become like them." ok...
- phaus 14y agoIt's amazing that the author acts like no one knows that the North Koreans are starving to death, it's in the news all the time. I would love for things in North Korea to change, but you can't do that without getting rid of their current government. If we tried, we'd end up with a mess much larger than the one we have in the Middle East. Like North Korea, Iraq was run by a ruthless dictator who enslaved his people and squandered the nation's resources. He raped children, used biological weapons on minorities, tortured and imprisoned millions, and murdered hundreds of thousands. You don't hear about it much on the news, but there are mass graves in Iraq similar to the ones used during the holocaust. Even though the world knows all of this, the U.S. is still looked at like we are the world's biggest assholes for trying to change things in Iraq. You might say that's because the Bush administration lied about the evidence. Did Iraq have nuclear weapons? No. Are nuclear weapons the only thing that Qualifies as a weapon of mass destruction? Of course not. The U.S. and over 2'dozen of our allies' intelligence agencies believed that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons before the war started. After the invasion, everyone else pretended that they had always disagreed with us. In reality, Iraq most likely did have biological weapons. After all, it's not that hard to hide/dispose of/ move chemical weapons when you are surrounded by countries that hate the Western world. You might also say that things went to shit in Iraq, and that we didn't really help. Well you might be right about that. It's pretty heartbreaking to see how fast things got worse after we left. Like a day or so after the last troops moved out, There was a story in the news about 90 children being rounded up in Iraq, who were smashed to death with rocks for wearing jeans and t-shirts. So that brings us back to North Korea. Yea we could dethrone the false demigod, probably in about 3-6 weeks if we wanted, but without the military support of the entire world, we'd just end up turning North Korea into another hell hole.
- Zimahl 14y agoI think a free N. Korea would be different than a free Iraq. While it would be a burden on S. Korea, I would imagine that a unified peninsula is of interest to them. China is something else and continues to prop up that government. N. Korea would've broken up by now without China, much like the communist bloc countries did without the USSR.
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- westward 14y agoIf only the North Koreans could read about life in 2004 Darfur and then travel back in time to escape the division of the Korean peninsula in 1953.