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Please make a video on Cuban economy and maybe include the political system if you can.

Finally you fixed your audio. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very very much!!!

​@agapp11able I wish I could unread your comment.

I love your content!!!

thats a good thing

What a bias statement. More like sanctions does that.

@@porkysharma8423 The soviets ruled half the world yet a bunch of sanctions ended them? That would mean that communism is dependent on capitalist trade.

​@@maarten1115 Communist depends on an open market to trade, unfortunately that trade access is controlled by the capitalist, none other by the US, who throws sanctions left and right and controls the SWIFT system through which all transactions go through.

@@porkysharma8423 Then why didnt they trade with their own allies and puppets? Again if the soviet, who owned half the world, couldn't maintain their own economy without a constant input of capitalist money then there is something wrong with their economic system. Sanctions work both ways silly girl. The west did just fine without all that Soviet trade.

Stop believing what this guy talking about. Everything OK in NK according to THEIR standards, if we all stop mornings about poor souls and just curry on with our lives it would be perfect.

Don't worry, the eternal leader's magic hawks will fly down from sun mountain and put a chicken in the pots of the truly faithful 🤪

@@supercompooper can confirm i just received a chicken. I'm an American all I needed to do was pray to the supreme leader and his magic hawk graced me with a chicken.

@@lusvus5445 I think you're confusing violently oppressive autocracy and democracy. Alternatively you're heartless

@@lusvus5445 It is true that every country’s citizens have their own quirks which will cause every government to deal with their citizens in different ways. However, this doesn’t mean they are ok. It just means that we can’t assume they will suffer because we think we would suffer under that condition. Do they really suffer? Probably, since government pays its staff little, the citizens can’t afford anything above minimum necessity, and even workers in the gray market makes three times more. If you want to play words though, everything is OK in NK, says THE government. Maybe the government have the opposite in mind. Anyway, I believe we have been taught to be wary for untrustworthy source, that government included.

Denis Hover As the old Soviet joke went, "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work."

North Koreans get paid

And no pay raise

Why would they not need fertilizer?

They starve due to trying to run a country with a terrible economic system; how they farm is only a proximate cause, the ultimate cause is what made them start to farm in such a manner.

@@lendluke fascism? Yea it's a bad system. Tall hierarchies tend to have a lot of problems especially when the sphere of influence is broad. It likely lead to the years of economic stagnation in S Korea under Rhee despite U.S. economic support, until he was finally removed and the country reformed from the authoritarian puppet state the U.S. had originally created. The U.S. bombing campaigns probably made it difficult to administer what arable land they had as well, and I'd guess that likely made it easier for fascist to maintain and normalize their power.

you forget one thing. your idea gives hope. that is not allowed in the dprk

@yezede relegen russia is also getting sanctions but they are not starving

No coincidence it was the 90's too. They didn't have the USSR to ship them grain. It's important to remember that the DPRK was about on par with the south until the end of the Cold War. Which shows how North Korean leadership was capable if backed by a willing ally. However in post Kim Il Sung North Korea- Jong Il decided to go down the path of autarky which is basically a war economy (songun) which put the 90's DPRK economy in survival mode rather than growth mode.

Once race of slaves are always will be as slaves.

@@m.a.118 not until the end of cold war but 70s or 80s

@@alienelephant4721 what?

@@m.a.118 NK was far behind SK by the end of 1970's.

It's like an entire country run by an incompetent middlemanager who's related to the CEO.

The Korean War was as close to apocalypse as anyone can experience.

and even if the kims think they know better than farmers, the least they could do is not piss off every other government on earth to get some food aid, but even that is too much to ask.

​​@@chappikingofjoberg3583heir biggest fear is looking like the guy who got ass-r*ped by everyone else. DPRK has to look tough and the Kim Dynasty has to look like the all-knowing father.

@@anon_148 What do you mean by “even worse”? Can you elaborate?

It is as if a whole team is separately researching for him...

His recent one about comparing the cultural Revolution to Jan 6th was awful but nobody is perfect

Agreed. This is some of the smartest content on KZfaq. It’s almost as if it was produced by an Asian or something… 🤔

@@michelangelo4483 I mean, as someone who learned about the Cultural Revolution, I did find many similarities between Mao and Trump. You maybe upset that Trump is compared with someone as terrible as Mao, but Mao has his good sides and similarities with other politicians, like all people do. Will you be surprised if I tell you that Hitler is not special, and many politicians in the US and rest of the world bother before and after had used similar tactics?

@@thomaszhang3101 Winston Churchill was 100x worse guy than Hitler but.... yea

So I guess those images are part of a curated propaganda tour. I wonder how things look outside of that special areas. In countries of the former Warsaw pact, we have a joke about painting grass green, because directors of factories would do that for visiting dignitaries and foreign visitors.

@@Mbeluba Probably looks like Katanga slum.

Looks like a normal California gloomy day.

@@BungieStudiosngl I’d rather be shot by a group of kfc people than the secret police of NK

NK did not cut down trees. Those mountains were free of trees at least since 500 years ago. Korean Peninsula gets extremely cold, so all the trees were gone a long time ago used as fuel. South Korea was able to re forest their mountains after they become wealthy, and could afford to import oil for fuel.

And what about them using human feces to fertilize the crops? Wouldn't that taint the soil?

@@BabyMonkeyDefenderI know very little about farming, but is using human feces worse for soil than using cow or horse manure?

​@@adamesd3699Human waste is more likely to carry diseases that affect humans so it needs to be composted more carefully. But for example waste from cities water plants is used in farming.

@@MrJuanmarin99 Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks

Good luck growing trees on lime stone.

@@harryhuang1439 good luck raping your soil for years and years and then blame it on limestone

@@gillsejusbates6938 well, that is kind of the state of condition now. Thanks for the sanction from democratic countries, trees need to be chopped so more people can survive for the time been. But thanks for the hindsight wisdom.

@@harryhuang1439 even with sanctions Cubans didn't have to face starvation. they faced other problems but starvation was not one of them. same for Apartheid South Africa. your fat boss eats all that wheat and makes nukes to threaten everyone.

@@patriotenfield3276 right, you can shift Cuba to the same altitude as north Korea and try again.

They already have their own rich culture However communism destroys everything

They seem to be ruled by narcissistic maniacs who assassinate their own family members and only have one care in the world: Their own power. A few people in the capital, both "normal" upper class families and extremely withdrawn elites around Kim Jong Un seem to be living fairly lavish lives. At least the elites. The other ones might still be poor compared to us, no idea. Anyhow, I agree, it is fear. And it goes on because of extreme brainwashing, which made at least previous generations believe that the Kims are comparable to gods, and a concentration of weapons, money and technology (and even food) with the scum government that only cares about themselves. I mean, how stupid can you be to allow your population to starve in the 21st century, even though there is no political instability and you are getting aid? They really don't care at all about their own people.

@@KanishQQuotes Sure. Wasn't talking about culture but about technology and economics. However, I doubt there is anything left of Korean culture in N.K.: generations of oppression by absolute tirants who want to control your every thought and be worshiped as god tends to destroy a culture.

If you don't own the land why do you care? Just pass your quotas and get some rewards. Anyway you likely would be working on a number of land plots and not always the same ones. Same if you were to lease a farmland for 3 years without rules. Just double crop as much as possible

t's even worse as crop rotation techniques was solved during the Age of Charlemagne over 1200 years ago. Medieval farmers used a three crop system (vs. two crop of the Roman Empire) which left one field to fallow (no crops but clovers were encouraged which increased land fertility through increased Nitrogen of the soil). So, the DPRK farming techniques are even worse than the Middle Ages. It's like they're partying like 99 AD. The deforestation of old growth forests was a result of the need for new farm lands due to growing population during the Middle Ages.

Classic Marxist mismanagement - since the only people who can exploit you are “capitalists” they ignore the damage they do when they deprive workers of the surplus value of their labor to serve the other parts of their operation. They are not capitalists therefore it cannot be exploitation, right?

What a bullcrap. You think the people of North Korea didn't knew BEFORE the starvation that their government is trash? With or without starving, they were and still are very loyal to their government because of brainwashing and cowardice.

@@guyukassman7705 I believe they slowly think that their government is trash after multiple famines and economic failures, remember that the people who founded North Korea was fighting for it. People wanted that communist government and they got it, after multiple failures by the government they don't like it anymore but the government got too powerful to stop.

@@guyukassman7705 And, people who are absolutely starving do not revolt. The revolts come as things get better. In the NK context, the only possible revolt would be some type of military coup, which seems unlikely as it would force out the military.

They can't keep the military fed. Gotta feed the military so that they can put down revolts/uprisings.

@@Dutch_Uncle which is why North Korea will never be free until their military is destroyed. When China collapses, North Korea will be in big trouble. Their chief benefactor will be gone, and with it, the military's main source of food. When the military starts starving, they will be vulnerable, and that's when they will attempt to pillage South Korea, which is when South Korea, the *real* Korea, should end North Korea's existence, with help from the US and others.

South Korea and North Korea can unite...but the Kim family demands they be in charge of a unified Korea. This is the biggest problem.

@@SelfProclaimedEmperor The ChiCom government would rather the Kim's be in charge, too. The last thing they want is a unified free Korea on their border.

Xenophobe alert

@@edsnotgod East Asian doing East Asian shit~ it's okay when they talk shit about others but not them.

@@cookingwithchefjeff It's true. The only reason, really, that China provides any support to North Korea is because they want a commie shithole between them and a free Asian country; China IS still an actual ally of North Korea and they DO NOT honour international sanctions agaisnt them. With Japan, they have the ocean between them and internet censorship out the ass to limit access to free world ideas, but if all of Korea were a free country, China would find it harder to stymie the influences of the free world from influencing their people who are largely silently resistant to the amount of authoritarianism they have to deal with. The Chinese voices you hear which sound patriotic and protective of the Communist Party's 'face' are those who fear telling us what they really feel or are part of what has become known as the "Fifty Cent Party", who are paid to deflect criticism of the CCP and to criticize free world ideas to make the CCP look more appealing to foreigners. Protip: these "50-cent people" love bringing up old historical issues relating to racism, skeevy business scandals, and unpopular political moves as 'proof' of the crimes of capitalism and democracy when we Americans have LONG addressed and redressed those issues (and still are redressing some of them today). They are, to us, ancient history and, thus, irrelevant.... so don't let these assholes deflect and those weak rebuttals when you encounter them and end up in a political/economic/civil liberties debate.

Through out history these animals get into power, I hope one day they can eliminated before they get into power

@@oggypilestro6343 based

@@defectiverevolutionaryandr1188 is based good or bad?

@@williamrosenbloom215 good. Very good.

@@oggypilestro6343 ironically these "animals" were highly supported by the US and were eliminated by other communists (Vietnam) :D

way better than half the fake reality tv shows we have today

you might realize one day that the similarities between the two is by design

I often say that the DPRK is Joseon Dynasty 2.0 .

Communist run countries are mafia by default.

Would be cool and funny for a country to go to war against a bunch of gangster Mafia lol

They closed their borders, but the ships from Vietnam and trains from China still bringing rice to their ports and stations anyway. So they'll be fine

It's hard to simpatize with country that prefer buying b* *mb or mi* *ile rather than foods for it's people.

@@winnieid2727 no one's asking you to feel bad for the DPRK, but for the majority of the people living there with no say in any of this

@@winnieid2727 why did you censor bomb and missile?

@@MusicalMemeology I’ve seen people do similar things with words on KZfaq’s demonetized list, but never for bomb and missile

Lol, we have something just like that in Vietnam, every new year, they hang a banner cheering the government and that banner will sit there until next year. People in countries like us doesn't care. We are just trying to survive.

China recently claimed their most valuable company is TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Corporation). Countries that implement information firewall across their borders love making ridiculous claims.

It does not matter what people think and whether they agree or not. As long as most of them prefer to stay quiet you can just pretend that truth does not even exist and replace it with whatever suits you best and you will all just carry on with it, right until you just can't anymore.

Have it obliterated by the United States of America?

@@blenderbanana economic lead or not there are still gulags, if you need to shove a large chunk of your population in a prison in order for you to thrive its not a good system

@@Nicholas-qf8vx .6% of North Koreans are being kept as chattle in the Gulag System. Americans who have served time (In Prison) for Non-Violent Drug-Offenses, is about 1.4% of the Population. Coupled with the Addendum of the 13th Amendment, and the History of "American Justice" throughout the twentiest century, Our own depravity is revealed.

@@blenderbanana Em where did you get this information?

@@kerosblue5609 N Korea's was easy, just google it. America's has to be pieced together from "Americans who have served time in Prison" and "# of Americans who have served time for Non-Violent Drug Offenses" and such

@@armamentarmedarm1699 cut of 90% of any country’s trade and they would do poorly, the trick is don’t get your trade cut off. Kim could have trade and prosperity right now

@@haruruben yeah if he bent over backwards, let himself get penetrated, and personally helped the us build bases with nuclear weapons on the country Do you understand what your argument sounds like? “Yeah we could not let them starve but they won’t listen to everything we say so uh, yeah sorry”

There was a time when they were outperforming even Communist China in terms of individual well-being.

@@FinePrintKR that was back in the 80’s, the North had a lot of different manufacturing contracts with the Soviet Union that boosted the economy but that ended with the failure of the USSR

@@armamentarmedarm1699 low iq comment

Honestly I want to see what happens if America lift it's embargo on Cuba. Because if it's a failed state, then why not lift the embargo and make it fail on its own.

It’s called asianometry though.

@@penguinpingu3807 Cuba isn't remotely a failed state lmao. They even regularly offer medical aid to the US when natural disasters hit (getting turned down by the US government of course).

@@Jetsetlemming oh please, their largest export is people.

@@MusicalMemeology he sometimes does videos on the Soviet union etc and other places. I don't see why he wouldn't do one. It would just be great to have an actual analyst breakdown the Cuban situation.

He does things not tirelessly already covered by western media

What city do you live in?

@@Wabu_227 nowhere special, just a mid-size city in northern indiana.

North Korea has a GDP of at least $150-$300 billion. Capitalists really love to lie.

@@NUCLEARARMAMENT 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

@@NUCLEARARMAMENT Not true

Throwing money at the problem wouldn't solve the obvious lack of know how

if it doesn't have it, US imperialism will invade it immediately like middle Asia. it's right

@@user-lh7mp4jg4o literally what are you talking about lol, we have no reason to invade a country that we very much like having as a buffer state between S.Korea and China. North Korea offers us nothing in terms of invading it other than so many more problems. Are you from China?

@@user-lh7mp4jg4o And they'd be so much better off if it happened, too!

@@AussieFlavio no, people in the country can decide their fate own, if they want to rebel, it's their own business. any imperialism and colonism can never be accepted. these several hundred years, imperilism and colonism have killed billions death, just India famines under uk colonism caused over 100 million peasants starve. and the slaughter by imperialism killed entire races in Australia and America. Africa slaves also died millions for US imperialism slave trade. let people themselves decide. US imperialism has make millions people death in such as Afghanistan, they just launch war for profit and don't care people death

Has potential but cannot access it since food is still critical

Except it's not eternal! It was basically the same as SK until the fall of the Soviet Union.

@@appa609 SK started pulling ahead already in the 70s.

@@armamentarmedarm1699 Or perhaps communist countries are always on the path to starvation

@@armamentarmedarm1699 that's because communism is brain rot for countries, weakening them from inside

even he has been getting a bit thinner as of late

I know your pain.

She probably saved your life. Anything could offend the dear leader and who knows what could happen to you

Wife seems wiser than thou

It's odd isn't it? Loads of people, all over the world, learning about natural farming methods from SK and yet, over the border, .............

it hasn't fallen; because the people still fear the ruler and are very malnourished to fight a war. most of the food is grown for the military. very little is kept for the farmers and their families. in the end; the population will fall. not very many are having children. why would a north korean man; have a child he knows; will grow up in poverty and live under that type of regime? not gonna happen. kim is going to be dead by the end of this decade. people who go from morbidly obese to slim in one year ; and on top of that ; go through a massive heart attack and almost dying at the operating table; but 1 year later; look like it never happened? yeah no. his time is coming.

@@ChickenMcThicckenNgl, I wish DPRK and China would collapse _FASTER._ I hate being an Accelerationist in times like this - everything feels so goddamned SLOW.

Imagine actually believing the bullshit Radio Free Asia puts out about Nk

While the north korea has bizarre propaganda but most of that propaganda is literal bs they don't actually say that kind of stuff.

@@Fireclaws10 this was actually done .

@@patriotenfield3276 source?

@@erozionzeall6371 trust me bro

they grow seaweed but it does not contain any sufficient amount of calories, like potato or crop. fruits do not grow in the northern climate

China has aquaculture on its seacoast and when there is a big storm, small islands of seaweed float around and kids lie on them and float around. The coastline of North Korea is extremely rugged with mountains sometimes entering the sea. Almost any market in NE China will have seaweed and kelp in stock so it obviously is a viable option.

reforestation is impossible. the demand for wood exceeds the planted trees. trees take years to mature and yield woods without being cut down themselves.

@@armamentarmedarm1699 The sanctions are to stop weapons and luxury goods from getting into North Korea and to stop the regime from making money to buy those things.

@@SK-hm3ze IIRC they cannot manage to grow strawberries. Unsuitable climate.

Pakistani dictator Bhutto put it well: "We will eat grass if we have to, but we WILL have a nuclear weapon". Said because India had demonstrated their ability to create nuclear warheads. Of course, when he says "we" in relation to food, he actually means "I'm going to have 5 square meals a day, the peasants can suffer instead."

Just think of how Britain used inflatable tanks during ww2. I'm of the mindset that much of what you see on north Korea video footage is bluster and propaganda, quiet frankly not a very good job.

Every regime is illegitimate. But some are more horrible than others. The Kim family and their cronies certainly deserve to suffer terribly and die very, very slowly for what they've done to their countrymen.

@@remcovanvliet3018 Yeah I added the word just to emphasize that there is no "government of North Korea". In fact there is no "North" Korea. There is just the Republic of Korea, the northern half of which, sadly, is controlled by a hereditary gang of criminals propped up by China and Russia.

@@JonMartinYXD keep on lying to yourself

@@edwardsnowden8821 What? Could you explain what I said that you disagree with and why?

LONG LIVE THE ETERNAL LEADER KIM IL SUNG LONG LIVE KIM JONG IL LONG LIVE KIMN JONG UN

"The farmers are keeping food for themselves!!"

@@spritemon98 kulaks and farmers are not the same.. Same way domesticated cats and lions aren't the same You can try mix-matching them all you want but it will never be same shit

@@Sunzen44 it's a joke

@@spritemon98 mb I seen too many ironic comment

China doesn't even like the N.Korean government, Russia and China have both talked about sanctioning N.Korea from just how doctorial it is. N.K constantly shows the world why authoritarianism is bad, which itself is a threat to Russia and China since they try to sweep under the rug how authoritarian their systems are. Pretty much by this point NK is truly alone besides Kim meeting up with Putin every few years. I actually wouldn't be surprised if Russia or China themselves invaded or at least toppled the Korean government.

@@armamentarmedarm1699 Yes you can. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement and corruption largely to fuel the Kim regime's power-trips.

Exactly.

@@armamentarmedarm1699 Yes, but I was mistaken; it was written by Sandra Fahy, not a refugee. "Marching Through Suffering", pg.131: "...the North Korean government placed national sovereignty above the well being of its population, all the while failing to provide a legal means of sustaining life."

Just crazy enough to be true. Kim Jong Il only cares about one person, himself!

All that money went back into the pocket of Kim family to buy the loyalty of the top officers. Why spend 10 on farming when 1 for farming and 1 for loyalty and keeping the rest.

Hydroponics and vertical farming as well as community permaculture gardens are great for food security of communities, but are harder to manage (by bureau) and tax than traditional wheat, rice, or corn farms. So while it would be much better for the people, it would be worse for a government trying to cling to power

True, north Korea could be a strong country If they loosen up on strict economic policies and let capitalism in like China, north Korea has large deposits of resources like high grade coal, iron , nickel, tungsten etc to be a industrial power

*"neutral tone" but slightly bias.

Russia is no longer the way you described it lol.

CCP's China sanctioning NK, like really?

@@Nestalgba92023 NK has threatened China and Russia before over silly things, making both Russia and China view NK in a less favorable light.

@@multidoor6928 yeah lol

This happened to Ukraine under Stalin. Stalin wanted to show the world how well his policies were working so he exported massive amounts of grain ... which had been stripped from Ukrainian farms and Ukrainians starved to death.

@@veramae4098 the Holodomor

Incapable implies that they don't have the ability to help their own people, they do, they just don't want to. For instance, whether it was Kim jong Il or un, I dont remember, an organization offered north korea food assistance in the form of rabbits, since rabbits can give birth to alot more rabbits, it can help with their protein related food problem. Nope, one of those mother fuckers decided to eat all the delivered rabbits that were brought into the country at a fucking party, im amazed how nk is still around.

This is by design to control people, as completely starving populace has no means of resistance because they cannot even think straight.

@@DruNature : According to some philosophies, only the most devoutly loyal people are deserving of having even their basic human needs met. It's tribal culture writ-large. It's cruel, but also surprisingly effective at ensuring loyalty, because almost nobody has the means to go find their own ways of meeting all their own needs -- not even most people who have devoted their entire lives to the task.

That's what the West wants you to believe!!

And yet the kims are well fed to the point of obesity

It hasn't. Even defectors from their (colossal) Army - receiving the best foods - are riddled with parasites and diseases, with evidence of them eating tree bark and grass. Just ask any doctor treating refugees and defectors. There's a reason why these tyrannical systems fail. Even China has fake foods and toxic foods, as well as food shortages.

@@alpcns Thank you for responding. Sure, if there’s veritable (i.e. objective) hard data on it, I would have to yield to it. Of course, given the undeniable bias of those who oppose North Korea (which, although perhaps well-justified would still generate a bias anyway) would somehow find its way towards manipulation of objective data. It’s just that, because of my background in Mathematics, I tend to be a bit of a purist when it comes to data and the application of logic [to it] to derive an objective truth. Any scientific approach worth its salt MUST consider any elements that might pollute the objective data, that’s all. In today’s world we find that, unfortunately, governments and economic interests indeed manipulate data to fit their corresponding agendas, and this is what I wholeheartedly reject. We should deal in only the objective, unaltered, and complete truth that untouched data brings us.

@@xavieryates9782 You're most welcome - and absolutely correct. Of course only objective, accurate and complete data will do for (real) science. Maybe it's useful for you to contact refugees (Yeonmi Park comes to mind) and/or others. I used to work and live in South Korea and Asia/Pacific for many years, and know many Korean people in general, including some refugees. So if I can help it will be my pleasure.

@@alpcns Thank you. I lived in Beijing for 3.5 years, but never visited Korea. We are all at the mercy (mostly) of the media in this case, except, of course, people who have actually been in direct contact with refugees, like yourself. Of course, when people visit North Korea, they are given ‘the tour’, are always accompanied by an assigned guide/guardian, and can only visit certain places, not others. This much I do know, but exactly to what extent this famine goes, I, personally have little knowledge of, so I’ll take your account on board and take it from there. Of course, I agree that, at least usually, totalitarian regimes do tend to fall into oppression, and usually end up imploding one way or the other. That being said, I also spent some time in the Middle East (Oman, which is a Sultanate), and most, if not all of those countries are definitely not democratic, but at least in a large number of cases their sovereigns are well-loved by the people and there is extremely little discontent. For example, Oman had a Sultan, who was indeed very protective (genuinely) of his people and was loved immensely. It is a dictatorship (like most of the Middle East), but that does not mean that it is a bad one. In the meantime, here in the West, what we call ‘democracy’ is nothing but a show; a large body of corrupt politicians in collusion with big businesses to squeeze money out of people into their own pockets and those of the companies they answer to. It’s a complete disgrace.

@@xavieryates9782 I agree with much of your observations. It's a sad state of affairs in the West these days. It's also an interesting coincidence that you have experience in the ME as well, where I used to work a lot too about a decade and a half ago (yes, I'm old). Anyway, I wish you much success in your scientific research endeavors, and if I can be of help in any way I'll be happy to do so. Thanks for the nice correspondence!

They didnt let the leader starve noo way literally 1984

before Soviet Union collapsed, I remember north Korea economy was better than south Korea(dictator government time) for a period. that time many people from south Korea escaped to nk

@@user-lh7mp4jg4o Lol.

@@user-lh7mp4jg4o Lol, I guess Kim has got you brainwashed too.

@@DixiePokerAce haha,just because you know nothing about history. I bet you never read history books

don't know why some westerns know so little about 😂