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richard mc awesome not really China’s army is growing rapidly and nearing America’s. China has 260 nukes whereas North Korea has 20-30. If China was attacked by North Korea, Russia would be involved, and there would be a huge war in Asia.
@@sitruk6120 yes, but if a hypothetical North Korea invades China, who would Russia side with? Especially if there's no us influence at all, I feel Russia would side with the koreans since they would likely see them as the lesser of two evils (knowing that China is much more of a threat and having an excuse to cripple them)
It is almost 80 year old technology at this point. It's kind scary how easy nukes are to make. Nuclear weapons are older than electric guitars and polaroid cameras and are simpler than even the most basic computer chips in nearly ever home appliance.
Fortunately, most residents of Beverly Hills are too stingy and self absorbed to contribute to something that doesn't elevate their status with their neighbors.
Yeah by that logic, any country or state or province with at least one above average-sized town could too. So every other country on earth. Whats your point? The funding isn't whats difficult about making nukes, its the technical expertise
i mean yea i would feel bad for anyone that's forced to eat grass to survive and could have their kids eaten by dogs if they do something the government didnt like
@@Villosa64 you feel bad for that when you have to pay for health, take your children to hunting and put a weapon on their hands, borrow a language………. Yeah….. imagine how people who belong where theyre born feel about you🙌🏼
@@mikutsu5356 Between starving and having to pay doctors and borrowing a language it's surely an hard choice, but i guess i'm more of a don't want to die guy, so i'll take the second one thank you
kurt engel To be fair, most Asians aren’t fat to be honest. They have some of the lowest obesity rates in the world. They’re far healthier over in Asia than America ever will be.
The US does not spend 54% of the federal budget on defense. 54% of *discretionary spending goes to defense. This amounts to around 16% of total spending.
I was in grad school with a South Korean who has family in the North. When Moon Jae In met with Kim Jong Un, my school mate was on cloud nine. So hopeful that Korea would be unified and he would soon see his family in the north. Shame the talks didn’t amount to much.
@@blorblin The way things are going, the US is only a couple of generations away from electing presidents with battle rap tournaments. That or number of likes on Twitter...
@@Macto5 My country needs to adapt those techniques as well. Rap battles and Twitter likes are way better than the usual bullshit politicians spit out in their campaigns lol At least I'd be entertained if they lie during rap battles
@michael boultinghouse I mean "pro-Japanese collaborators" makes it sound like not hating Japan is some sinful act, and entirely ignores the whole 'Empire of Japan being abolished 80 years ago," thing. But I doubt these "collaborators" have any sway, considering the vitriol Koreans hate the Japanese with.
Everything I need to know about North Korea's economy is visible from space. At night, you have South Korea all lit up on all the major cities, roadways, etc. In North Korea, you got a single blip of light on Pyongang...and darkness everywhere else.
Two blips of light from what I've seen, Pyongyang and Wonsan, the coastal vacation city of the elites. Other than that, yep, total darkness. The international borders are so clear for that reason (Lights all over South Korea and the North Korean-Chinese border, then mostly black in between).
You need to consider the global picture. China wouldn’t allow the destruction of North Korea and an ally of the US right on its border. And, despite what you might think, South Korea doesn’t have enough power ( I mean by itself) to ensure its victory. And you also need to understand all the rhetoric behind the regime which I perfectly understand since I come from the only other country in the world which is also officially called "Democratic and Popular" until today. Basically since your childhood you’re taught that the enemy of the nation is at the gates and can invade at anytime and so the Nation needs to be ready and prepared for war. That’s why everything goes into heavy industry and the army (+ all the rhetoric about the heroic revolutionary army, guardian of the borders and defender of the Nation). And in the case of North Korea it must be particularly effective since the West already went at war against them and obviously some shady things were done(+the two nuclear bombs used by the US who are the only country to have ever used it which justifies the nuclear program by itself). So even if they understand, most people would still stand for the country. Without even talking about the Intelligence services and the whole penitentiary system which add fear on top of that.
@@DJDiarrhea but look at Germany today, strong economy. It would tank in the first few years but then would go back up and likely surpass the previous amount
@@jacoblee8989 It's not really fair to compare East Germany to North Korea though. Sure it was lagging behind the western part, but the difference was nowhere near as big as that of the two Koreas. If the south and the north unite, the former would basically need to build everything from scratch for the latter while feeding their entire population. The economy might as well just implode. And then there're also cultural differences that are much more severe in this case. Afaik the nations drifted so far apart they can barely understand each other language wise at this point. Essentially they are two different cultures that just happen to have a common ancestor.
@@CARILYNF Yep that's correct. So many people have the impression that there's such a big language gap. But that's not the case, at least to me. I can read North Korean signs or slogans and fully understand them. Or I can listen to a native North Korean speaker and fully understand 80% of what they're saying with ease. The main differences is in vocabulary and intonation in accents. It's mostly regarding modern words - the fact that South Korean has integrated a lot of English loan words into its language while North Korean hasn't. In terms of pronunciation, I'd say they're even closer than how American/UK English are spoken. For example there's a huge difference in how vowel sounds are pronounced in UK and American English. The 2 Koreans don't have that problem. The only reason why there's no problem in communication between the two English accents is because there's so much British and American English in media that everyone's used to hearing each other's accents. It's so sad how close, yet so far apart they are.
Just remember, that even as a middle class westerner, you are probably wealthier and will have more opportunities than even some of the government big shots in north Korea. Don't take anything for granted.
Yes this was a major boo boo with my voice recording. I had that written down on my script and then just stuffed it right up and didn’t notice until people pointed it out here. Fortunately the portion of GDP figures are still correct.
its still ridiculous, focus first on your huge amounts of homeless people, healthcare services and internalized social conflicts like a normal developed country
Reminds me of a story I heard from a WW2 vet; a buddy of his and his squad were all eating and talking when a Nazi officer caught them off guard. He had them at gunpoint, then noticed that they were eating cookies and smoking cancer sticks. The officer and his command had been dealing with the elements, sickness, and starvation, and when he saw this, he handed them his gun and begged them for food. When your enemies can have luxury items sent to them *in your backyard* while you are starving, you have lost.
@Dhyeya Patelalso North Korea kinda feels like it’s the kid that was left out. All of its Neighbors, South Korea, China, Russia have economies in the trillions while North Korea is being beaten up by an old man named bill
@Dhyeya Patel it's not fascist, it's a dictatorship. But anyway north Korea is isolated in the world, as no one wants to protect it anymore aside from China, that may be his biggest trick. China can basically do whatever they want with North Korea
@Dhyeya Patel North Korea is forced to close to the rest of the world because the dictatorship doesn't work anymore if people have access to free information. However, North Korea is not fascist, it is a communist regime
Just that when you are a dictator, the generals are among your key supporters, so you need to keep them happy. As far as Kim is concerned, things are pretty dandy as they are I bet.
@@josephgaviota Yeah.... I mean just look at a satellite image of North Korea vs. South Korea at night. www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-is-pitch-black-at-night-2015-10
@@affentaktik2810 no that applies to any non-western countries. the west sanctioned mugabe to death after he took the colonialist's land. compare that to mandela who sold out native africans in the name of "prosperity" where that basically means they'll be hired help in their own country.
When you center your economy in military might in civ 6 and all the AIs denounced you and you have no trade and your economy is slowly decreasing due to funds of maintaining the military
The military must then be used to keep the people in line, meaning more financial losses. Is there a thriving international trade among communist dictatorships (Venezuela, DPRK, China, well, that's it these days. The Soviets had the Gulag to earn some money. But they also supported a number of commie regimes)
@@ludwigvanel9192 the primary revenue source of the soviet union was state owned industries. they had their own currency, the ruble, which the issued and collected very few taxes, making most of their income from th eprofits of state industry. the gulag made very little money for them, it was more a system of punitive reform than a way to make money.
@@cageybee7221 But in my mind, their ownership of the Ruble would make them inflate gargantuan amounts, until the currency popped. Surely, even in a totalitarian despotism like communism, that cannot be supprrssed for long, and still, they lasted until 1990? About 80 years. Lenin called communism "socialism with money" I guess you're right about the gulag, slavery is not an economically beneficient system, in part due to all the control that must be exerted over "the traitors to the revolution" Stalin had them dig rail roads that cost vast amounts of lives but were hardly used since. The Gulag was a combination of opportunistic self-funding and punishment to strike fear in the population's heats. How dare he! He owes the job to the people, without whom, there would be no nation state. Instead of serving them, he dominated them. The people can exist much more easily & comfortably without politics, but politics is nothing (literally) without the people.
It is CREEPY. They have gigantic statues of both Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il that people bow down to, and their actual bodies are preserved and publicly viewed. The North Korean calender begins with Kim Il-Sung's birthday, "The Day of The Sun". It's literally the world's largest cult.
@@thunderbird1921 Indonesia almost fell into this when the first president claim himself to be the "president for life" and lead the country with his "guided democracy", it doesn't end well.
Little Kim drives a large BMW while its people ride bikes, an during a recent crop failure ate grass and tree bank. My next vacation will not be Hermit Kingdom.
While rural people of his nation desperately ate boiled tree bark, Kim chowed down on steaks and sipped Chilean wine. Communism: The greatest and most evil hypocrisy in human history.
It's more like North Korea can't afford those things. It pays for them anyway because the regime prioritises self-preservation over the welfare of its citizens.
If you took all the taxes that Beverly hills pays to the government (in all forms) and kept 25% you could probably hire the entire military of some third world country full time.
Expressing his opinion and working from bias in a video that's trying to come across as educational is actually a problem. Not that that's entirely his fault, it's the way every American source of news is opinionated that people get used to thinking that's supposed to be how it works.
@Stephen Jenkins oh ya, it is pretty clear now how cruel Gaddafi was because they librators we supported have started a slave trade. The country is worse off in every sense of the word. Same is true for Iraq. Maybe you should get off your high horse and admit that attacking Libya and Iraq was standard western imperialism and nothing more.
@Stephen Jenkins He was a guy that gave ALL privileges to his people. They were free medical care, free education, jobs for those who finish colleges, really cheap apartments, financial privileges for newly wed. If they can not find a job in his state they would had been given salary as if they had found one. And you think that a person who is a dictator and does all that and MUCH more for HIS OWN people would hurt them? You had many examples of dictators eating babies (literally), having child soldiers, below poor living conditions, mass killing of their own people, genocide over other groups. Those dictators are still in power and nobody cares. On the other hand you have Gaddafi who did so much for his people and you say that he was about to nuke his own? Well, you really need to research who he was and what Libya looked like before US destroyed it. The only reason why it could had been destroyed was because it had no nukes to defend it self against "American democracy".
@Stephen Jenkins Well let's talk about this "Libya was gonna fall one way or another". That is same as saying, Well my neighbor that is going to die, sooner or later. I am just going to shoot him now. No problem. You can not defend a monstrosity such a killing like that. That is a faulty logic. Oil was not going to last forever = my neighbor was not going to be this healthy as well forever. So I just shot him. Just like you can not be a maniac in real life going around shooting people, you can not be a maniac to destroy whole countries.
Stephen Jenkins nah actually Ottoman Empire are better compare to today with the fragmentation of the empire it paved to most problem in Middle East right now. Ottomans aint saint but they are angel compare to the situation right now
Muhammad Abdul dude, theocratic Islamic governments are the most repressive in the world. They subjugate women, gays, and people of different faiths regularly. Why should anyone respect those values?
Austro-Hungarian Egonomist it’s not a myth it’s a statistical fact. Name one communist nation that turned out like the utopia it’s theorized to be. I’ll simultaneously wait for a response and take a moment of silence for the 20 million+ lives that were subsequently lost due to communism throughout the twentieth century.
I saw this video once where a traffic lady was dutifully directing traffic at an intersection. She would signal to stop cars coming from one way so others could cross from another. Then she would direct another group of cars to come through the intersection. Of course there were zero cars of any kind or people in the intersection. Some weird dystopian state.
I am also fairly certain that most North Korean buildings are literally just empty shells that serve no actual function other than to make it LOOK like a real city
@@doctordoggo8604 Yeah, or how most British colonies started out. There's a reason it was called the East India Trading COMPANY. Not to mention cults like Jonestown.
Korea is the *perfect* case-study for the efficacy of communism and capitalism: you literally split a county in half and have each side pick one or the other, and run with it. Fast forward 70 years and the proof is plain to see.
Except that one was relentlessly bombed, sanctioned and condemned by the USA, while the other received economic aid. It’s hardly a fair comparison. The BRD also received heavy monetary support in the Marshal Plan, whereas the USSR, which lost 20 million people to the nazis, had little to give the East Germans. Context, people. Countries don’t simply exist in a vacuum and they certainly don’t all start out in the same conditions. Fidel Castro said (approximately): people are quick to point out failed socialist states, but where are the successes of capitalism in Asia, Africa and Latin America? Compare the living standards in Cuba to those in Colombia. Night and day difference. In fact, Cuba outperforms even the USA in terms of food insecurity rate, infant mortality, life expectancy, homelessness (there are no homeless at all in Cuba), literacy rate, I could go on. And consider that the island has been under internationally condemned US sanctions since 1961. It essentially cannot import any goods. People there are stuck with cars from the 60’s, yet they enjoy higher living standards and social safety than the richest country on earth.
While it's all fun and good to point and laugh at the big mean Korea that's "throwing tantrums" and all that. I do it myself, really. let's not forget who's really suffering from these economic and political gaffes. It's certainly not the people making the decisions but the small guys and gals. Imagine being unlucky enough to be born in a state that starves you. That's why I really hope that this situation will indeed "implode peacefully and good governments can take it's place."
People have been hoping this implosion for decades. Now NK is finalizing its nuclear arsenal which is a serious threat to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Unlike what Trump keeps blabbering about his good relationship with Kim, the situation is getting worse day by day.
I mean you can pin the blame on authoritarian policy, OR you could perhaps understand that the debt gained, thanks to foriegn embargoes, thanks to their commitment to nuclear weapons (to maintain self autonomy). If you're seriously here today saying authoritarian policy = bad economy when china exists you're blind as fuck. The issue is lack of foreign investment, IE banks aren't interested in investing, and they're unable to benefit from foriegn automation which is continually undercutting their more labour based economy in foreign markets. Let's not forget the economic funding and investment the LARGEST economy of the world at the time was willing to put into South Korea, meaning the US created an economic hegemony that was difficult to compete with as a next door neighbour.
@@johnballs1352 Uhhhh, are you sure? My job is talking to people all day about how they cant afford their insulin and that there is nothing I can do for them.
Do you know if the 20% of the NK budget spent on the military during the 80s was a part of the discretionary spending or of the overall budget? For the US today, defense spending makes up 54% of discretionary spending but 16% of the total budget.
@@martinertlschweiger8218 I mean, the notion that a country is spending over half its government budget on defense when not in wartime (I mean REAL war) should be a red flag to review the data being presented yet somehow made it past the author's review.
The Kim family including Kim Jong-un gets nearly everything while nearly everyone else in North Korea get almost absolutely nothing. That is just horrible.
It would be severe, if we didn't have a decentralized government and budgetary system, and were more like NK who was a centralized government and budget for the entire country. America's diversified internal systems really reduce the overall government spending on its military. And it's not all for making bombs and jets.. it's VA healthcare, Cyber security, and the FBI.
joseph jeon I mean compared to the rest of the western world, yeah is bad, and it does affect the citizens, but it’s nowhere near as bad as North Korea.
@@tomlxyz there doesn't need to be fights for a war. Just the declaration of war. They didn't sign a peace in 1953 so the war was still going even with no fights until 2018 when they signed it finally
@@tomlxyz There were skirmishes in the past 30 years, including the past decade, with hundreds of deaths. South Korea's military is in a permanent state of readiness.
The United States spends 50% of its budget on military. Where did you get this number? Could you link some sources? I looked it up and it's actually only 14%.
To be fair it’s a common mistake since people keep spreading aground that graph of discretionary spending (not all spending just a part of it) that makes it look like the spending is more then it is. Defence spending is 54% of discretionary spending, which seems to me to be a weird way of of breaking up spending since mandatory spending isn’t spending that the Congress can’t control but whatever.
@@paulharland7280 He stated it was Discretionary spending... Like in the same video I watched he said that. He went even further and broke down the total cost based on all government spending,
@@theextremegulp Most viewer are not going to understand what discretionary spending is and how it differ from total spending. What's the point of even bring up discretionary spending over total spending? To me it was use to mislead people into thinking military spending is greater than it is. He is just trying to make a point and use a sleight of hand technique to make his point seem more valid. Which to me seem very dishonest. Now if he isn't honest about this then what else might he be misleading us in this video or his other videos?
@@clems_first what do you mean start lol. They've sunk a South Korean military vessel called the Cheonan with a torpedo and also bombarded a border island with artillery all within the past decade. The West freaks out Kim's over nuclear tests but honestly it's the "smaller" incidents without media buzzwords that scare the heck out of actual Koreans. We really thought there would be all-out war again both times.
A family friend was in North Korea and had to take a colleague to hospital with a broken arm. The X-ray machine at the hospital was unplugged (donated from USA) and a technician sat looking at a blank screen pretending to make a diagnosis. He doubts the machine had ever been used.
Increase the volume please at least to the level of youtube ads. I have to increase volume while watching your videos and youtube ads keep startling me
Cuba has been through a similar experience since 1959. It was largely kept afloat after cutting economic ties with the USA by the USSR, which was pleased to have a commie ally right next to the United States. Eventually the USSR got tired of pampering Cuba by buying all its sugar crop at higher-than-market values, selling them oil at lower-than-market values, and just giving them lots of money. All that crashed to a halt when the USSR itself also crashed to a halt, and Cuba hit an economic bottom. That gradually has eased since the early 1990s, but Cuba still controls everything centrally and quickly clamps down on the few capitalist ventures it allows, when they start to get successful. They have the US embargo to blame for all their troubles, but that's mostly a scapegoat for being an economic mess of their own making.
Why would they allow greedy capitalists to have private corporations that exploit people on their land. There should be one government that cares for people and controls all the bussines
It's funny how when the footage of Times Square was shown at 5:54, the South Korean flag appears on the screen to the right and there are ads of huge South Korean companies like Hyundai and Samsung.
They are alone in the world. Literally every country on the planet does not trade with them and they are also heavily sanctioned. I do not support them but it's kind of impossible to have a strong economy if you can't trade with anyone.
And export massive sculptures to African countries. kinda like my rim world experience, they export art as a primary source of economic growth and their people live in slums developing rocket technology XD.
I'm dissapointed you didnt mention: 1. donju class. you kind of hinted at them, but didnt even mention them. 2. there are two economies in NK; the "court" economy (foreign currency for weapons and luxuries for party officials), and the "department" economy (or national, centrally planned economy). 3. there IS an improvement in living standard, at least in Pyongyang, over the last years. 4. NK has an extensive network of international activities, from smuggling weapons, to money laundering, etc. which is an important source of foreign exchange. Without mentioning this no NK economy review is complete, in my opinion.
Then again, talking about improvement in Pyongyang is kinda relative. There's no data that proves this statement. What HAS happened in Pyongyang is the construction of many modern buildings and new areas. The thing is, no one really knows who actually uses those buildings or even if they are being used in the first place. If I'm guessing, the government probably uses one or two floors in each building and the rest remains unused. But for argument's sake, even if quality of life is in fact improving in Pyongyang, that shouldn't really be impressive, since it's the postal card of a dictatorial regime and they'd do anything to make it look decent. The big problem really lies outside the capital, where people suffer everyday from starvation, persecution and fear.
@@joaopedropeixoto8558 "The thing is, no one really knows who actually uses those buildings or even if they are being used in the first place" Turkmenistan capital is known for that :D Nice palaces, but no people to be seen. But that country is probably the closest one to NK these days
I don’t ever wanna hear anyone say that centralized govt. is viable ever again, NK had literally the 2 most successful commie countries of ALL time helping them and still failed. SK is wildly successful with minor help, and currently need no propping up unlike NK.
I mean, tbf NK is also being governed Like in a Victoria 2 Game where the Player has No Idea what they're doing. China seems to fare Just fine with a relativly similar economic structure
@Ender katze You are really wrong about that. China is the most capitalist "communist" country ever. China was struggling under Mao. Only after Deng Xiaoping brought in librelisation did China was put on a path to economic success. Some of the areas in China like Shenzhen and other SEZs puts hard capitalist countries to shame. Moreover even in state owned enterprises they have incentivized work such that the executives can take part in the profit. The CCP tolerates private enterprise and helps them get land very easily with extremely low regulations to facilitate economic growth.
Hey, just FYI the statement made about the US military being 54% of its spending is inaccurate. Its actually roughly 18% of total spending. That's because it makes up 54% of Discretionary spending (which is roughly 33% total spending and American votes can decrease it) while roughly 66% of spending total is Non-discretionary (Medicare and social security must be paid and cannot be decreased). Not only that but America serves as the unilateral protector of the west with some help from other countries. We actually pay for the military protection and involvement of NATO for most countries, which means that they just sell their ability to control violence in their regions to America.
I am glad someone called him out on this. Not responding though is he. I just can't take a channel seriously when they make that kind of misstatement and won't own up to it.
You should rewatch that part. That's what he said. I think you're confused. He did say it's about %20 percent of total spending not %18 but I'm sure a margin of error that small is reasonable.
@@jakeperkens2937 he said just under 30%, with the implication that it is 50% of 54%, which is wrong. It is also slightly misleading as government spending in the USA makes up a much smaller fraction of its total GDP compared to NK.
‘Unilateral protector’ ‘some help from other countries’ and ‘we actually pay for the military protection’...etc. Speaking as a UK citizen with an annual defence budget of £60bn and having just completed its’ second aircraft carrier and with not a single US troop anywhere in sight at any of the defence installations I’ve visited I’d have to say that perhaps your flag waving is getting in front of your actual, you know, facts. Also - can we please have the planes we have paid for that your defence industry has been telling us are ‘almost ready’ for more than a decade now...
America : let's strangle every country that dont bend over to me with the most Draconian Sanctions that will only affect the masses we want to '' Liberate '' *5 minutes later* America : WHY DO THEY HATE ME?????
@Hoàng Nguyên False, terrible mismanagement is the norm in the country, and mostly by government officials, Le Thanh Hai and Nguyen Bac Son are the most recent big names brought to court. People have to complain so much for so long that they have to finally do something about it. And government run infrastructure projects like the pathetic "modern" rail systems, terrible quality roads, pathetic water and air quality in Hanoi just to name a few are not stuff to be proud of. Hell, public education isn't even free in the socialist country, yet it is from K-12 in the US. The only quick, innovative and effective people I see in the country are private entrepreneurs and businesses.
This video is extremely quiet compared to others that I listen to. I listen while at work so i have to have them on full blast and i still couldnt hear it that well. Maybe a 20% boost next time?
John Smith There’s a channel that have talked about the routes that took Japan and Argentina and how their economies inverted. Check it out, the channel is Visualpolitik EN.
@@soup6823 Well the issue is that one of the caveats is that they need to denuclearize, and that isn’t going to happen, and after seeing what happened to Iraq in 2003, I can’t blame them for wanting nuclear weapons.
DPRK; "North Korea is Best Korea!" RoK; "They can't hear you screaming over the sound of BTS blaring from their Samsung phone through the speakers of their Hyundai SUV, maybe if you screamed louder?"
@@acchris029 Moranbong girl band Smartphones looks like modern Chinese smartphones. In one of the North Korean Movies on RU-vid, one of the characters was using a phone that looks similar to a Huawei phone.
@@xdq_ you just repeating imperialistic propaganda Democratic people republic of Koreaa is the true free korea that othe one in the south is just a US colony
The USA doesn’t spend 54% of its budget on the military. It spends 54% of its discretionary budget on the military. But discretionary spending only amounts to about 1/3 of US federal government spending. Mandatory spending makes up the other 2/3 of US federal spending. All together, the USA spent about $623 Billion USD in discretionary spending or 49.3% of the discretionary budget and $155 Billion USD on veterans programs in mandatory spending or about 6.2% of the mandatory budget. All together in 2018, the US federal government spent $778 Billion USD out of $4.1 Trillion USD total on the military, amounting to about 19%. However, allocating 66.98 Billion USD spent on interest ((.778T in military spending/(4.1T total spending-.325T interest spending))*.325T interest spending), that increases to 845 Billion USD spent on the military in 2018. That’s about 20.6% of total US federal government spending. This is a common mistake propagated by anti-war groups who like to use the 50% figure to try and say that military spending in the USA is out of control. When it’s not.
A thing you should note about the North Korean military is that as much as 80% of it is not primarily based around combat. For them it's actually a productive investment in their economy, as their army effectively spends most of its time doing things like construction work or helping out with the harvest. Think of their military as primarily a mobile labour force that builds shit.
That’s just even more proof that centralization of that sort doesn’t work, especially when private enterprise isn’t allowed. If the military personnel were actually a benefit to the country, then they wouldn’t be constantly suffering from famine, crumbling infrastructure, and literally being filled with parasites.
Great video. I know you simplied the S. Korean example for brevity but I think it's important to state that S. Korean industrialisation was an enormously complex enterprise of economic protections, tariffs, export substitution and huge investments in a variety of industries. At the beginning of it's journey it had half the population of N. Korea, was much less industrialised (a consequence of Japanese investment), less educated and as poor as Angola. The triumph of S. Korea was a triumph of intelligent industrialisation in the American and Japanese model.
I sure hope he doesn't, It's pretty obvious his conclusions and observations are critically flawed by what seem to be either his own biases or straight up ingnorance. I mean, he literally just didn't talk about sanctions in a video about a country plagued with them. If that's not saying something, I don't think anything else is.
I would go to deficit owl on youtube to get an understanding of debts/deficits/surpluses. But be warned, it will be too complicated for those without advanced knowledge of economics but still good.
I can imagine the history books that my future grandchildren will be reading at school, telling of this really weird country that once existed called North Korea that was basically tantrum-throwing brat, and how I will be able to say 'Oh, yes, that was when I was young. Those were the good old days.'
The point of the sanctions is to cripple their economy until they stop oppressing the people. In that respect, it’s working. NK is becoming more and more desperate for money.
Kurt22 well yes they are becoming more desperate. But after 60 years, they’re still not giving up on their structure. Nor have they stopped oppressing the people. I think 60 years is enough time to realize what you’ve been doing isn’t gonna work.
@Tyler Slagel Do you have a different method we can try? An invasion would not end well for anyone. I agree that sanctions are not a very efficient method, but I just don’t know if there’s any other better option.
Kurt22 I don’t have a different solution. There probably is one, but I am not aware of it. It won’t end well for NK. But the US won’t be scratched by NK. It has a comparatively small military using outdated war technology. And I already outlined the reason why China wouldn’t bother getting involved.
@@theyoshi202 Let Koreans determine their own future. It's not up to the US military to decide what they do. Sanctions give strongmen power because it's an obvious thing they can point to. "Look, imperialism is fucking you, not me!" Lift the sanctions and withdraw from South Korea. Most Koreans want to see the peninsula unified.