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Originally Posted by FlameOn
I really don't get North Korea, they spend close to a quarter of their GDP on the military and their people are already starving. Now they try to launch more rockets and build nuclear reactors to force other countries to give them food aid. Not to mention they just nearly bankrupted their country by spending $100million on monuments for the late Kim Jong-Il. You'd think it'd be more productive to feed their people and improve their GDP rather than sabrerattling.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12...r-kim-jong-il/ |
The people are irrelevant in a dynastic system like this. Especially one where there is an active cold war between the Military and the Intelligence apparatus both of whom keep the Kim's in power.
The people don't matter, and GDP doesn't matter. If you can find it you would be really interested in reading about North Korea's watch and suit making businesses. It gives you an idea of how the government thinks.
I think the other really interesting thing is about and I'm going off of memory room 41.