ruveyn wrote:
His policies led to wide spread starvation of his own people. His Army ate well. The rest of the population had to go on short rations. He also had his political enemies killed. He was a bad evil tyrant and it is good that he his dead. Qualitatively there is very little difference between the late Kim and Josef Stalin.
ruveyn
Even the Army didn't all eat well. There are North Korean defectors from the Army who speak of being required to steal from villages in order to eat and of orders coming down without the supplies to undertake those orders.
The weeping and crying is taking place in Pyongyang (and presumably in the other cities, as well). The ten percent of the population privileged enough to live in Pyongyang have access to housing, clothing, sustainable food rations, consumer goods, entertainment and transportation. They go to the best schools, where they are taught, every day, that everything they have is due to the munificence of the Great Leader and the Dear Leader. It's no wonder that they weep.
We might never know what is going on in the countryside, because we will never be permitted to see it, and those who are there will never be given the means to travel anywhere close to a border where they can escape.
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--James
29 Dec 2011, 3:54 pm
