Most interviews with escaped North Koreans state the opposite. They are expected to be very self reliant while not having much to begin with. Farmers typically get most of their grain taken away with no compensation and have to survive by foraging, etc.
Wait, why aren’t people taken care of in totality? Isn’t that the point of their authoritarian system?
Most interviews with escaped North Koreans state the opposite. They are expected to be very self reliant while not having much to begin with. Farmers typically get most of their grain taken away with no compensation and have to survive by foraging, etc.
But… what’s the point of farming in the first place if you can’t eat it??
Not being sent to the work camp for three generations is a good motivator.