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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I agree on a very basic level that it doesn't make sense to have wealthy people owning dogs as pets while poor people starve in a country where dogs have long been a source of meat. I could see it being a pretty big trigger for dissent.
The sad thing is that North Korea has a lot of resources, technology, a large labour force, and shares a border with three of the world's largest markets. They could do so well if not for the Kim dynasty.
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The problem with NK is that its rich in metals, poor in Oil and Gas and doesn't have enough farmable land to feed itself.
Stack onto it a government that has been obsessed with trading their resources for military hardware and wealth for the leadership and you've got a country that's been starving to death and has a strategy of food and essentials acquisition via blackmail
This is never going to change until the Dynasty is toppled and replaced, but I have my doubts of that happening as the people with the guns are perfectly content with their place at the table, while being paranoid that their every move is being observed.
The people who would usually drive a popular uprising are brain washed every day that it could be worth, and are too easy looking for feed every day to rise up.