Happy times in North Korea
Posted Feb 5, 2010 at 17:29 by denisbider
Last edited Feb 5, 2010 at 17:31 by denisbider
economy insanity liberty North Korea politics
In
The Economist:
First, women under 40, the main cohort of traders, were banned from markets, which have since been closed. Travel restrictions, especially near the Chinese border, were reimposed. “Antisocialist Conscience Investigation” teams fanned out. With market activity criminalised, punishments got harsher. In low-level “labour training-centres”, where most economic “criminals” are housed, 60% of inmates have seen executions and 90% witnessed forced starvation, refugees tell surveys by Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland for the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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