North Korea rolls out new long-term economic plan; Tries to reinvent itself
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[QUOTE=Lambeth;27936891]There won't be any investments unless civil rights improve.[/QUOTE]
An abuse of civil rights can make a country go far, hell, just look at China, daily human rights abuses, and they're about to become the world's next superpower. If you wanna make progress, you gotta take a few steps back, first.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;27938983]An abuse of civil rights can make a country go far, hell, just look at China, daily human rights abuses, and they're about to become the world's next superpower. [/QUOTE]
The PRC is fine nowadays and they're already a superpower practically.
Quite possibly the only three currently existing bottles of water in North Korea. Tough shit over there man.
[QUOTE=marlkarxv3;27937468]
Yeah, the industrial part worked well (but fucked over the country later, see the Khrushchev kitchen debate) but the agricultural part was totally shit though (killing kulaks, opening collective farms without enough materials, etc).[/QUOTE]
He industrialized the country by throwing farmers into factories and setting up shit-collectives that gave farmers little to no incentive to work.
[editline]8th February 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=marlkarxv3;27937468]The first part of the post made sense, the second didn't. Do you even know what the Cultural Revolution was?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, a dictator that ended up destroying everything he didn't like.
[editline]8th February 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;27938983]An abuse of civil rights can make a country go far, hell, just look at China, daily human rights abuses, and they're about to become the world's next superpower. If you wanna make progress, you gotta take a few steps back, first.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, turning your citizens into working-slaves and indoctrinated fascists could definitely make you the big kid on the block. Look at Oceania in '1984'.
The whole point to North Korea is to put on a show.
A crazy fucked up show.
In order to create money from scratch, you must first invent the economy
[quote]Pyongyang apparently aims to attract foreign capital[/quote]
Ahahaha, this is the funniest thing I've read all day.
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