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Are you factoring in the most rigorous sanctions on any state ever just to pursue sovereignty?
So libshits like homeless people rather than homes because muh "regime forcing people in homes!! regime bad!!". Do you understand how crazy you sound? not to mention your premise is entirely false
Its totally justifiable because of the sanctions. DPRK will flourish and you will keep coping with your epstienite propaganda
Do you know how many people outside of the western periphary capitalist countries are malnourished? much much more
Did epstien told you that? there is no rich in NK, its party elite and normal people, party elite may have slightly higher living standards but its nothing in comparison to how billionaires and leaders live compared to normal people in capitalist world. Also the biggest reason for under development of north korea are the sanctions and the brutal korean war in which america invaded the DPRK killing its 12-15% population and destroying almost all of its industries. While simultaneously sanctioning them, DPRK is doing good despite these and they will improve drastically in next decade while you imperialist libshits will cry.
China is a major ally to North Korea, and obviously Russia is too. Why wouldn't it be enough trade to have access to the biggest global market in the world (China), and the market with the most natural resources too (Russia).
North Korea has plenty access to trade, this is not like Cuba or even Iran. North Korea has constantly threatened surrounding countries including Japan. Cuba hasn't and even Iran didn't threaten their neighbors more than than they were threatened by their neighbors. Iran actually made an agreement with USA and EU. North Korea never wanted to even negotiate, except for easing the famine caused by extreme North Korean incompetence.
When you are starving in the province, it doesn't help that prestige apartments are built in the city. We have seen other dictators do this too, and it does NOT improve living conditions, on the contrary it is spending resources in a way that doesn't benefit either the people or the country. If you can't afford food, chances are you can't afford to rent an apartment in the city either.
No other country has had so consistently repeated famines as North Korea, just look at South Korea, and you can see how a better managed country with almost the exact same geographic conditions and trade opportunities can work. If you can't see the difference in how badly North Korea is managed compared to every other country in the world, then you are blind to reality.
Are you insane or a child? How is Epstein in any way relevant to this?
First of all, the peace agreement was entered in 1953 after 3 years of war. Not so long after the communists took over in China in 1949. China has moved on and recovered after the WW2 occupation by Japan and the civil war after. North Korea has had 73 years to recover, but is arguably worse today than they were 73 years ago.
To continue to blame "the west" three quarters of a century after is insane, and a willful act of denying reality.
There is absolutely nothing good about North Korea, and the North Korean regime has no excuses for how bad it is.
The people however, are probably mostly innocent victims to circumstances that are very hard for them to change.
Why don't you consider the plight of the malnourished and oppressed people of North Korea? Instead of defending a regime that is among the very worst and most cruel and brutal in the world?