Any information coming from the NORKS is whatever Little Rocket Man says it is. Anyone who believes it is a fool.
Someday NK may overtake US.
Considering how little their economy produces, even a tiny uptick in production output could be seen as a substantial percentage increase. Since all the means of production are state-owned, they’re probably counting the manufacture of all those missiles Fatboy has been chucking in the ocean lately.
Kristof would rather live under Lil’ Kim than Donald Trump.
Maybe we ought to put 1/3 of America into gulag work camps?
Of course Kristof is a fool but there is a germ of truth in what he is saying. The Communist system of distribution collapsed in the famine if the 90’s and has not been rebuilt. Instead it has been replaced by what appears to be a vigorous black market which the government has no choice but to tolerate. Detailed in this book.
And in other news, the North Korean Lunar Colony is really going gangbusters and is now larger than Texas.
An economy based on drug sales,weapon sales and counterfeiting Western currencies.An economy where the top leadership are fat slobs with funny haircuts and the rest of the population looks like survivors of Auschwitz.
I thought it was April 1st for a minute .
Going from $50 valuation to $200 is a 400% increase. Going from $100 Trillion to $103 Trillion is a 3% increase. It’s simple math. When you’re at the bottom, going any direction upwards is an improvement.
Oh yeah? Check out the lights at night in north vs the US. pretty stark.
The percent change from 0 to 1 is infinite.
He doesn’t have two moleazzholes keeping meaningful legislation off his desk.
Nobody other than tenured professors believes in communism any longer. All communist countries today accommodate themselves to a degree of a market economy, whether legally or via an illegal but tolerated black market (this is called grey market).
The consequence of this is: the so-called communist countries of the world are all vile and corrupt gangs. Their governments ARE organized crime. If you think the Las Vegas gunman was scary, think of the Las Vegas gunman with nuclear weapons.
High rate of growth. When you multiply by zero you get zero.
Doubling or tripling a small number is easy. It’s much harder in a larger already successful economy.
It’s like saying Mexican economy for workers went up 100% as their wage went from 50 cents per hour to a dollar!
Then move their asshole.
And they all sing kuhmbya while flying kites.....
I’m amazed that anyone is capable of getting his head that far up his ass. But, as a “contributor” to CNN and the New York Times, I shouldn’t be surprised. Kristof obviously knows nothing about North Korea.
North Korea has a population of about 100 million—an estimate, of course.
The area is just a bit smaller than the state of Indiana.
Lots of targets to pick from.
They have starved their people for years & years. They do not have the facilities to produce much except military items.