My Chinese knowledge has deteriorated to the point of nothingness after 2 years so I mainly use Deepl lol

Inshallah one day lemmygrad can get this approval for real:

Uriminzokkiri and DPRK Today were part of that wave. However I tried to go on Yaegihaja a few months before the purge and yaegihaja was down while Uriminzokkiri was still up.

Searching around apparently a user named PropagandaBot@lemmygrad.ml posted a link from Yaegihaja about 2 years ago but it seems that their account is inactive.

Baidu is good for finding DPRK stuff

Coal miners, heavy industry workers, and women caring for children get 6 hour workdays, the majority of workers get 8 hours for a 48 hour workweek, although this is balanced by increased holidays

It balances out the fact that they don’t have Saturdays off (lots of conflicting information, some say it’s a full workday, some say it’s half, some say it’s a day reserved for political education and civil duties".

Price data in DPRK is hard to find. The best I could do was to use sources like NKNews which have a history of inflating prices. Some of the prices have more reliable sources though.

This is why communist can never work, people are just too greedy and it goes against human nature.

_/s

Thanks for the insight.

I read DPRK news daily, I know how to access it. I’m just asking about NK News’s motives. Also, I’m pretty sure uriminzokkiri got taken down after Kim Jong-Un abandoned the unification policy.

You underestimate the power of the KPA and Worker-peasant red guards. The DPRK is very different from what it was during the Korean War, where it had a relatively feeble army with WW1-era weaponry and barely any industrial base. The DPRK today is more prepared for war than it was 75 years ago.

Liberalization was around August I believe so the crisis you linked wasn’t a direct result of the liberalization. Its evils took a while to accumulate, but I know family members whose former prosperous factory cities have become ghost towns due to deindustrialization after the License Raj ended.

Of course, the DPRK is a small economy but don’t get confused with Western GDP measures. A lot of times, due to the state subsidies and the fact that socialist currencies can’t really be exchanged for global/western ones at a fixed rate the GDP rates are severely underestimated. Officially the KPW to USD ratio is 8000:1 but a lot of things you’d get for a dollar in USA you’d get for maybe 500KPW in the DPRK, as well as the added effect of subsidies. When China opened up it immediately had a gigantic growth in GDP figures, not because of actual economic growth (that came later) but because the Renminbi was market tradable and the RMB to USD rate was now more accurate.

But yes I agree that the DPRK having a small economy does have an impact. Also oops, I suck at percentages. Fixed.

KCNA also recognized a few days ago that America’s military is spread thin, and given that for the first time in decades the DPRK has declared peaceful reunification impossible I think we could see a Korean War 2. Korean War 1, USA had 50% of the world’s GDP and nuclear supremacy while the KPA and PVA had WW1 era weapons. Now, DPRK homegrown arms have been proven to wreck American proxies in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and now possibly Ukraine. If there was any time to retake the South it would be now.

1991

Absolute banger KCNA article by the way, I recommend everyone read the whole thing.

Still waiting for my xi bucks

After liberalization destroyed the little industry India had developed during state capitalism we basically had nothing to offer the world except for cheap software engineers.