Posted on 11/17/2010 8:23:21 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N.Korea Reverts to Hardline State Control
The North Korean regime is enacting sweeping changes to the law to bolster state control. A source familiar with North Korean affairs on Tuesday said four North Korean laws covering economic planning were revised in April and laws governing management of Pyongyang were revised in March.
The revised laws, which the source claims to have seen, "show the central regime's intention to control everything, from the economy to the daily lives of the people." North Korea has changed or enacted at least 17 different laws since November last year, just before a botched currency reform.
The revised economic planning law deletes a phrase in Article 17, which stipulated that the economy is planned "in line with methods that are presented from lower levels." According to the source, the regime inserted the phrase when it announced timid economic reforms in July 2001 in order to give more authority over production to individual factories and businesses. "The deletion of the phrase demonstrates the intention to retrieve that authority," the source said.
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Sounds like our airports.
ML/NJ
He also wants to know the benevolent master of creation's official policy on allowing his lowly subjects to STARVE TO DEATH. Obama has this glorious sacrifical fate in mind for many of his own misguided, disloyal, and ungrateful subjects.
I hadn’t known that the Norks had an alternative to hardline state control.
“Pyongyang Spring” still sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Obama/Pelosi/Reid are looking on with envy.
i’m trying to remember when it was that they WEREN’T under hardline state control.. help me out here.
Oh goody, now the Norks can starve even faster!
And because they’re brainwashed Communist cultists... they’re going to be happy about it!
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