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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: North Koreans Yet To Benefit From Reforms |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051029/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_what_change_2
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PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Chol Min and his wife are browsing in the furniture section of the cavernous, deserted Taesong Department Store as music blares from a 43-inch Toshiba TV set priced at $3,500.
Talking to a reporter under the watchful gaze of a government minder, they claim life has gotten so much better in the past three years that they can afford to be here shopping for furniture and a wardrobe on just two months of savings.
"Thanks to ... the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il, our economy has improved step-by-step," says the bespectacled 50-year-old power station employee. "Our lives have greatly improved in every way."
But Taesong's wares are well beyond reach of most people in this isolated, impoverished nation. |
I guess this is better than nothing at all but certainly not the reforms the world is hoping to see. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:06 am Post subject: |
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| I doubt those TV sets are flying off the shelves. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:35 am Post subject: |
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I'm a simple guy...
Just give me a small, shanty apartment, my daily ration of UN rice, my fearfully subservient wife, and my poster of Kim Jong Il and I'll be happy. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| Pligganease wrote: |
I'm a simple guy...
Just give me a small, shanty apartment, my daily ration of UN rice, my fearfully subservient wife, and my poster of Kim Jong Il and I'll be happy. |
So would SovietMan. |
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