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A starving man in North Korea has been executed after murdering his two children for food, reports from inside the secretive state claim. A 'hidden famine' in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae is believed to have killed up to 10,000 people and there are fears that incidents of cannibalism have risen. The grim story is just one to emerge as residents battle starvation after a drought hit farms and shortages were compounded by party officials confiscating food.

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I just can't imagine how those people don't revolt.

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According to my friend who has done mission work in plenty Asian shitholes, they are wayyyyy too stupid to revolt. She didn't say it as an insult, just said there's no way they have the mental capacity to figure out how to do it. 

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More like the Jesus freak right wing utopia

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I just can't imagine how those people don't revolt.

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For the first 25 years after the split, both North and South Korea roughly quadrupled their respective GDPs. But after 1975, North Korea's economy flat-lined for 25 years, then sank back to its 1969 levels. South Korea's economy, however, continued to escalate dramatically. In 2008, South Korea reached a GDP of nearly $1 trillion, compared to North Korea's $25 million.

As Arthur Brooks observes in The Road to Freedom:

Many socialists in the West believed that the North's Stalinist system of central planning would prove more effective than the South’s market-based approach. We all know how things turned out on the Korean peninsula. Today, North Korea is horribly poor and its people are starving. It also has the distinction of being the least free country in the world. Meanwhile, South Korea is both the thirty-seventh freest country in the world and the thirteenth richest.

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He says North Korean men are, on average, between 3 - 8cm (1.2 - 3.1in) shorter than their South Korean counterparts.

A difference is also obvious between North and South Korean children.

"The height gap is approximately 4cm (1.6in) among pre-school boys and 3cm (1.2in) among pre-school girls, and again the South Koreans would be taller."

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I just can't imagine how those people don't revolt.


They don't have guns.

The government does.

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I just can't imagine how those people don't revolt.


They don't have guns.

The government does.

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if you want some perspective on how your average north korean feels, read the book of Job in the bible

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