North Korean economy mysteriously growing, baffling experts - Polidicks

Lol. North Korean animation. Sounds hilarious.

[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49026718]Lol. North Korean animation. Sounds hilarious.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujtp-70zQME[/media] In honesty they actually do a lot of (profitable might I add) subcontracting for animation in Europe, USA, South Korea, etc. They've animated the terrible Italian titanic movies, in addition to some South Koreans children shows/movies and some bizarre experimental French ones too.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;49027001][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujtp-70zQME[/media] In honesty they actually do a lot of (profitable might I add) subcontracting for animation in Europe, USA, South Korea, etc. They've animated the terrible Italian titanic movies, in addition to some South Koreans children shows/movies and some bizarre experimental French ones too.[/QUOTE] Yeah, this cartoonist actually drew a comic about his trip to North Korea, where he directed animators. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang:_A_Journey_in_North_Korea[/url]

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;49027067]Yeah, this cartoonist actually drew a comic about his trip to North Korea, where he directed animators. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang:_A_Journey_in_North_Korea[/url][/QUOTE] They've only been credited for like a dozen works though, I wouldn't say they're that influential, all I can find about them is they do a lot of work for French companies

[quote]Now that the black market has become the new normal, Kim Jong Un’s government has little choice but to continue its fledgling efforts at economic reforms that reflect market realities on the ground or risk losing its grip on power, experts say.[/quote] When your country's economy sucks so much that the blackmarket is better than it

[QUOTE=proch;49020103]Monarchy and Socialism really boil down to one in practice[/QUOTE] Public ownership of industry is the same as hereditary rule? The two are completely separate things.

[QUOTE=CrumbleShake;49028031]Public ownership of industry is the same as hereditary rule? The two are completely separate things.[/QUOTE] He's talking about "in practice". While Socialism is de jure "Workers owning the means of production" and monarchy is "Sovereignty is embodied in an individual (a monarch)", there is a considerable difference between that and what is de facto the actual practice. The socialist states that have existed tend to be ruled by somebody resembling a monarch in practice. A lot of Socialist dictators have even built themselves grand monuments and had their bodies embalmed like bronze age emperors.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;49027001][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujtp-70zQME[/media] In honesty they actually do a lot of (profitable might I add) subcontracting for animation in Europe, USA, South Korea, etc. They've animated the terrible Italian titanic movies, in addition to some South Koreans children shows/movies and some bizarre experimental French ones too.[/QUOTE] Looks like 1940s animation.