Anonymous ID: 1844a2 Dec. 23, 2017, 9:37 a.m. No.157031   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>4307

probably only "opened" for special guests and visitors. "Locals" - were probably hand-picked, to work or attend - while this special guest(s) visit.

Anonymous ID: 1844a2 reunification theory Dec. 23, 2017, 11:25 a.m. No.157706   🗄️.is 🔗kun

What if on the off chance POTUS is working towards this…. https://thediplomat.com/2013/01/if-korea-were-to-unite/

Anonymous ID: 1844a2 Dec. 28, 2017, 3:46 a.m. No.194288   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Hx timeline of North Korea here…

https:// www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/learn-north-korea-history/

 

This paragraph - may be the important link between post-war collapse and state of matters today.

 

2000s: The People & Markets Prove Their Resilience

By the early 2000s, the people began to recover. The markets, which initially emerged as a survival mechanism, gradually grew to encompass a broader range of goods and services and became better established. The markets today are the major source of food for ordinary North Koreans. South Korea also adopted the “Sunshine Policy”, in which it gave unconditional aid to North Korea, and increased economic cooperation between the Koreas. Established in 2003, the Kaesong Industrial Complex just north of the DMZ was part of this policy and now allows South Korean companies to hire over 50,000 North Korean workers. China also gradually strengthened its economic relationship with North Korea, and today is by far North Korea’s most important economic and political partner. Nevertheless, ordinary North Koreans continue to face the severe challenges of chronic food shortages and grinding poverty, while their basic freedoms are curtailed by a repressive regime whose number one concern is staying in power.