it's they don't have a real answer for variation and unexpected events

so like Africa, a bad season can lead to a mass die off

Agriculture relied on electrically powered irrigation systems and artificial fertilizers and pesticides, and was hard hit by the economic collapse.[16][17]

re: the 90s famine

yeah

koreans have a long history of intensive agriculture

and are no africans

so if things are bad, they are really bad

shit is also bad for the old Soviet Russia reasons

yeah but isn't like 80% of the population farmers

I think so, not sure

probably if they fed themselves only in a localized, communal fashion

they would be fine

but then you add scale, and you add no real connection to their own production

@fallot yeah I've heard of the LBrothers from some random blog rec years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotjebi

sry for wikipedo

@fallot most Africans live at an early iron age level.

Circular thatch huts like the most primitive Irish tribes ( not the ones with the high kings)

yeah I know

Slabs and burn agriculture. Sub classical world. Medieval peasants are 2000 years ahead of them

North Korean peasants basically live in 1900

These are people who can't figure out crop rotation or building a spiked plough. Some have classical era board ploughs making them German peasants in antiquity.

I would not necessarily write NK of

Obviously, they have to somehow manage inner tensions

But NK is the only country in the world that dares to openly say

MILITARY FIRST

And make it an official state ideology

And not only that, but to make military the most important and most desirable social function, for both men and women

Meaning that bourgeoisie spirits are systematically annihilated over there

It seems that NK elite is clever enough to notice

That the only thing that can undermine that system, is a prolonged period of peace and sense of safety

Which is why they manufacture hostilities

hi

hello @Ragnar

@Ragnar hello

I am irate about "fake news"

everyone is so preachy and moral about how they do not look at "fake news" and facebook and google are pushing guides on "how to spot fake news (and alert us so we can take it down!)"

yet nobody notices that basically a few big companies have a complete monopoly on what you see on any topic, and now they are telling you what is true and what is false

it is just a corporatist version of state media

and nobody cares