6.3 mag Earthquake detected in North Korea

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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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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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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It would seem then that despite the growth of North Korea's economy it doesn't look to be benefitting anybody there besides Kim, Pyongyang, its military, and its nuke program.

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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 mark 32 second mark into the video look closely at the table, A CELL PHONE.

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Nope. Pyongyang isn't grim looking at all. Looks to be very modern and upscale while the rest of North Korea lives in squalor and darkness. 



Every other nation around North Korea, China, Japan, South Korea is lit up at night. Shows how little Kim's world is. It doesn't expand much beyond Pyongyang. His nation starves while he gets fat.

Have you considered that the reason you don't see a lot of lights in North Korea at night is that maybe all of its industrial infrastructure is underground?