Posted on 01/16/2012 8:37:12 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
No Electricity, No Water, No Patience
By Choi Song Min
[2012-01-13 18:01 ]
Many of the residents of luxury apartments in Pyongyang are leaving their homes for the heated homes of relatives or other warmer locations.
An inside source who visited Pyongyang at the end of last month said in a phone interview with the Daily NK today, “People previously had no supplies of water so didn't have drinking water and could not go to the bathroom without difficulty, but now that there are heating problems too the people are inevitably leaving their homes. This year, many people are locking their homes and leaving for warmer places.”
The source said, “When I went to Pyongyang just three years ago, the people still stayed in their apartments even without heat, but now half of them are gone, they went to East Pyongyang where the pre-1980s homes are heated with charcoal briquettes.”
The source added, “Even until last year, the residents in these apartments spent the whole winter season there with cotton blankets on the floor all day long, filling pint bottles with hot water to warm their blankets when they slept; however, as the situation has gotten worse this year whole families cannot take any more and have chosen to leave their homes behind.”
The 20-40 storey apartments on Gwangbok and Tongil Streets, which are boasted of by the North Korean authorities for their modernity, are among those falling into dilapidation.
The source explained, “If the rooms had just enough lukewarm water that they wouldn't freeze we could live, but now they are not even able to do that. Nobody knows when heat will come.”
Among many North Korean people, the situation is such that the letter ‘ㄹ’ has come to be ridiculed, with people saying that they suffer from a particular lack of words that have the letter ‘ㄹ’ in them, for example, water (‘물’), fire/electric (‘불’), and rice (‘쌀’).
Check out the island to the right (west) of S Korea. It's the island of Ullong-do. It's just as, if not better lit than Pyongyang. That little black dot in the middle is a volcano.
*sigh*.
One, China does need people.
Two, North Korea is really not poor land. They are poor because Kim is a moron.
Post of the day.
Third verse same as the first (and second), A little bit poorer and a whole lot worse.
I’m pretty sure they know it already.
But they do not have any means to rectify the situation............
IMO, we should have scuttled our USS Pueblo as soon as our troops were home -- using our largest thermonuclear device centered on Pyongyang.
I went to Panmunjom in like early December. It was bone chilling cold and that is about as far south as you can go and still be in N. Korea.
“China does need people...”
Huh?
Population:
1,336,718,015 (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 1
Age structure:
0-14 years: 17.6% (male 126,634,384/female 108,463,142)
15-64 years: 73.6% (male 505,326,577/female 477,953,883)
65 years and over: 8.9% (male 56,823,028/female 61,517,001) (2011 est.)
Median age:
total: 35.5 years
male: 34.9 years
female: 36.2 years (2011 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.493% (2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 151
As to the land being poor, it looks like G_D’s frozen rock garden to me.
But I will take your (You, both) word for it.
Certainly it is mismanaged. I almost seems deliberate.
China:
0-14 years: 17.6% (male 126,634,384/female 108,463,142)
US:
0-14 years: 20.1% (male 32,107,900/female 30,781,823
male: 35.6 years
female: 38.2 years
China’s just a half a year behind the US in average male age. They may already be older.
China needs people. Did you look at the TFR and the birthrate? 1.54 children per women.
All of North Korea is 24 million people. Even if China took all of them, they wouldn’t be able to even touch their manpower issues. We’re looking at a shortfall of roughly 300 million people.
Probably coming to Connecticut too if they keep regulating/voting against energy of any form
Ok, ao your point is that they are commiting societal suicide?
(As a proud Neanderthal, I won’t call it racial suicide.)
They STILL don’t want the NORKS, as I have been told.
Yep, exactly so.
As for them not wanting the NORKs, a nation that’s committing suicide isn’t exactly bright now is it?
Nope - look at ours.
Worse yet, look at Russia.
Ouch.
US is actually the best.
Why do you think that Obama is trying to shove O-Care down our throats?
Every nation with socialized health care has seen a decline in birthrates. Every single one.
The US is ranked 135 (13.83) in Births per 1000 in the world, North Korea is 129 (14.51)
How is US the best?
In the developed world, the US is the best. TFR over 2.0
Yes, that is true.
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