6.3 mag Earthquake detected in North Korea

[Anomalocaris]

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 tend to agree with this. The money has to come from somewhere. It they can't get it from the people themselves, there are investments outside of the country that more than likely, are happening. I think we'd all be foolish to think otherwise.

Of course he can get it from the people.   North Korea is not a giant peasant village.  It is still a full fledged nation state with its own research institutions, universities, factories, mineral resources,  transportation infrastructure, where the impoverished people work and able to produce things and occasionally invent new things.  Kim just need to make sure enough of that infrastructure is commanded to make things and invent things that goes into the bomb.

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The people are starving to death there so it would seem that most of the aid they get from China and elsewhere is probably going to their military and nuke program.

Don't look now , but for once we agree. 

North Korea's capital isn't grim looking at all, but it is where the party loyalist live. 

The private sector exists even in North Korea, it is just that it is crony capitalism where the profits go to support the party and Kim Family. 





When you get to the middle age couple sitting at the table smiling, at the 2:35 mark look closely at the table, A CELL PHONE.

Well, the bad news is North Korean economy is currently not on the verge of starvation, at least not in 2017.  South Korea also estimated North Korean economy grew at the fastest pace in 17 years during 2017.   So it's ability to weather sanctions in the short term is probably as strong as it's been in a long time.

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And it is assumed to be as a result of their largest nuclear test to date.

USGS seems to concur with South Korean assessment the quake was a result of an explosion.

On most news networks now.

Seismic events resulting from nuclear tests is hard to mistake for any other types of seismic events.  Nothing else happens on the time scale of micro-seconds, not even conventional explosives designed to mimic nuclear tests.