Clueless, commie Wash Post/MSNBC article on North Korea

Miscellaneous Current Events
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29541226

From the article:

… Kim is also struggling – and by many accounts failing – to contain an outbreak of capitalism and profiteering that food shortages and food aid have helped spread. Since famine killed perhaps a million North Koreans in the mid-1990s, a sprawling, unruly and often corrupt network of private markets has replaced the government as the prime distributor of food.

“People on the outside don’t realize it, but North Korea right now is in a drastic state of change,” said Jiro Ishimaru, who edits Rimjingang, a journal of reports, photos and videos smuggled out of North Korea by anonymous eyewitnesses.

The government does not release statistics about the markets, and nearly all of them are off-limits to foreigners. But according to estimates by outside economists with access to North Korean and U.N. food data, at least half the calories consumed by the population come from food sold in markets. And nearly 80 percent of household income in North Korea derives from buying and selling in the markets, according to a study last year in the Seoul Journal of Economics. …

So the market is blessedly providing HALF the calories to keep these poor people alive and EIGHTY PERCENT of the income they need to maintain some standard of living, but it’s the PRIVATE MARKETS that are “sprawling, unruly and often corrupt…?”

Right after we burn all the education departments to the ground, the journalism/communication departments are next. [:@]

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Does the author not make the connection between kim’s foreign trade restrictions (restrictions that probably include food) and the prohibition of alcohol in america? Surely our prohibition didn’t make sheep out of the people so why should the same thing be such a surprise in korea?

If you provide the fire I’ll provide the torches.

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Journalists are such fucking idiots. They got a degree in journalism, and then they have the audacity to talk about economics!

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This.

I wonder if much of the MSM should be considered part of the state, seeing as the AP or NBC never miss a chance to call for some new kind of tyranny.

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Don’t they benefit from various regulatory restrictions as well?

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The best part is how they think that the poor unenlightened masses of the world would still be in the Stone Age without their brilliant prose and even better research. Laughable.

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If you’re not upset and gnashing your teeth in anger after hearing these words, obviously, you must be of a misguided free-market psyche.

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The mannerism of the article is very audacious. It speaks of capitalism in the way you would speak of a disease!

… Kim is also struggling – and by many accounts failing – to contain an outbreak of avian flu and ebola that food shortages and bad sanitary conditions have helped spread.

Bubonic plague is bad, but thank the heavens at least there hasn`t been an outbreak of capitalism jet! That would really finish us off!