Kim Jong-un Blew Off Mike Pompeo to Visit a Potato Farm

[Swiket]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/kim-jong-un-blew-off-mike-pompeo-to-visit-a-potato-farm.html

Probably a better use of his time tbh.

[gman003-main]

Agriculture is a pretty big deal in North Korea, because of their perceived need for self-sufficiency. They don't have great geology for it - too mountainous and not very fertile soil - but they place an outsize political importance on farming (sort of like how car manufacturing plays an outsize political role in the US).

There's also their lingering communist ideology - farmers are the archetypal "working class", so in any communist (or nominally-communist) nation, you'll see political leaders be seen to be focusing on farming. For instance, Xi Jinping, now the "paramount leader" of China, did his doctoral dissertation on agricultural marketization.

[Doctor Smiles]

My dyslexia caused me to skip over the word 'Off' in the thread title.

I was still able to believe everything I read though.

[Polymorph]

The greatness that is the facepunch mobile layout cut off the last word of the thread title and made it even more absurd