(September 3, 2017 at 8:38 am)chimp3 Wrote:(September 3, 2017 at 8:16 am)Brian37 Wrote: Just because the majority of their population is poor does not mean the Kim family is poor. This is what most don't get, there is not one nation, friend or foe alike that have powers that invest in the global market. Kim family has global investments and just because the west sanctions them does not mean all their allies do. It is also a myth that Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia were anti market. Every nation takes in money and exports, to greater or lesser degrees.
I don't think Kim Jong Un is paying for this out of his own pocket.
His country is his fief. His pocket is the entire treasury of the state. He is not just looting from the state, he is the state.