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Originally Posted by BBQorMILDEW
If only they had oil....
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Its funny, they're one of the richest countries in the world in terms of minable goods and strategic metals, if they actually tried to exploit it they would probably be able to buy their way out of their problems.
Instead Kim Jong-il and his old man decided that food production in that wasteland was the way to go and miserably failed due to a lack of fertile land.
They also decided that they should be a manufacturer where they built tractors and sold them to the Soviets, of course they couldn't figure out how to build a reverse gear.
Its a company that up until the late 70's was on a upward climb and had a higher GDP then their neighbours to the south. Then Junior took over and corruption took root and the starvation really began.