How North Korea Became So Miserably Poor
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North Korea was not always such a miserable country, nor did it always have the levels of extreme poverty that it now suffers. In fact, there was a time when North Korea was seen in the socialist world as a kind of model of socialism, and South Korea, on the other hand, as a poor and corrupt blot on the capitalist world.
North Korea even went so far as to donate food to South Korea, something that, seen with today's eyes, seems totally crazy. At the time, North Korea was much richer than China and its economy was industrializing. One day, however, everything changed. In this video we tell you about North Korea's fall from grace.
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did you just said that north korean grain production exceeded 10 million tons per DAY??? at 2:25... wth man, pay attention!
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He slimmed down again lol he's like the operah of dictators 🤣
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What an EGG-selent reply!
It's not because North Korea didn't try to get foreign investment.
In 1990s, when it became apparent that China had outpaced them, North Korea tried to build their own Special Economic Zone on the model of China's Shenzhen. To do that, they hire a Chinese director to run everything. And just as the project almost completed, the director was recalled back to China and the Special Economic Zone became a failure.
Why would China did such a thing that amount to sabotage their "brethren forged in blood"? Maybe because China feared North Korea would become competitor to their economy. Or maybe because China wanted (and still wants) to keep North Korea as their pet.
Well they certainly don't want the South to win because they would have us troops on their border. No doubt that NK is a good scare crow for China.
Whilst I'm sure China had their intentions, it can't all be down to one person. North Koreans are more than industrious enough to have a good market economy. Or one with a good market element anyway
Nowaday, sometime, my grandpa still mistake that North Korea is richer than Vietnam, my country. She said that when she was young, it had been so much different
Even back in the days of Kim Il Sung the people around him looked terrified. And hungry.
well, south korea was brutal dictatorship until late 90s
I was stationed on the DMZ in the mid 80's, to seewhere both countries are today isamazing, and I was there at the start of ROK's boom, amazing, and yes, you could see the difference even back then if you did border duty
@@cxzcvnndghrdjuuopkhare you a Pyongyang wumao? Copying and pasting the same incorrect propaganda won’t change the facts.
@@cxzcvnndghrdjuuopkh Poorer sure, but not starving poor. You think with Russia and China as trade partners NK wouldn't be reduce to eating grass.
The 1 minute of nothing between @12:17 and 13:00 really reminds me of my schools exams, when I knew nothing but kept the conversation flowing.
What one minute of nothing?
@@Hollylivengood nothing is said in that one minute. It's just "We are now going to answer the question. But what is the question? The question is what need to be anwered."
@@miroslavhoudek7085 How did such a prosperous country by socialist standards end up suffering one of the worst famines in human history? That was the question he asked between 12:17 and 13:00. Clear as day.
@@Hollylivengood yes. And you just asked it in 5 seconds.
@@miroslavhoudek7085 So? He repeated it over and over. I know it seems like picking on North Korea, but really, in their beginning, they really were an amazing example of communism. Their version of it was successful, and made other countries take notice. So it really was an WTF moment. That's just all he said for that minute. Did the sound kick out for yours?
CHUN-LI-MA : 천리마 : THOUSAND MILES HORSE : a legendary horse that can go 1,000 Li(a Korean Length unit) without rest.
The Pronunciation of CH in "Chul" should be like that of Churchill's Ch, China's Ch... though the worlds accent is on the 3rd syllable, MA.
North Korea basically live on foreign aid, that's why they were rich
well, When South Korea started government budget 130 millions US gives them 110-120 millions
The collapse of the Soviet Union and International sanctions for nuclear ☢️ weapons against DPRK 🇰🇵 is why they are poor and if they were lifted they would fine.
One word. COMMUNISM
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Communism.. roll credits..
No.
kim doesn't want to become the next gaddafi or vulnurable target like ukraine
Yeah, these videos talk about how bad is for north korea to try to be self-reliant or that it spent a lot on military, but nobody tells why it does
Exactly he understood the assignment
wew una uhakika kama korea kasikazin kweli ni masikini.muongo pamoja na video yako hii.korea ni shuwari kabisa ni vile tu taarifa zao hamuzipati ndipo munaishiwa ni kusema uwongo na vitu visivokuwepo.
The countries poor. But Fatty Boom boom is extremely wealthy
NOTRH KOREA 1 MISSILE = 1 YAER FOOD. 2023 100 MISSILE.
You better see for yourself, communism or capitalism... It's up to you. Western or Eastern?
Please don't call what North Korea or China do "communism." They use some of the jargon to cover traditional power structures, oppressing the workers and crushing diverse opinions.
What's the track played at 7min please?
Starting 3 times to waste 5 minutes
No thanks. I'm out
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It's so poor because of the Western embargo, whiteout it it won't be as blooming as the South but definitely more relaxed than the current situation
Because Communism is stupid
cope
_Please_ research the proper pronouciation of native names before recording. Skipping this risks you getting a reputation of not actually having done fact checks are are just another opinion-driveling clickbaiter.
천리마 sounds more like "chul-li-ma". Even worse was your previous video about the 재벌 that dominate South Korea, which should sound more like "jay-ball".
@14:21 And thus the difference between communism and capitalism.
To make up for losses, communism produces more creating a surplus and driving prices further down.
Capitalism pulls back production creating a shortage and thus driving up demand and prices.
*Well, unless the market overreacts (which is quite rare), pulling back production usually does not create a shortage, it just cuts overproduction.
Capitalism pulls back on production because of lack of capital or a search for better use of capital. Communism, or rather command economies (not the same) is not intrinsically tied to just making more. That is the problem of having few decision makers, short term thinking chasing today's profits, and some sunk cost fallacy.
This doesn't actually drive up demand, however. The market generally doesn't want more just because there is less. They don't make many typewriters any more, is the demand going up?
What does happen is that current demand consumes surplus and surviving companies start ramping up production to meet existing demand. Prices go up when that ramp up does not supply enough to meet the demand of the time - this isn't a smooth process.
In broad outlines you are generally correct, but your reasoning for what why it happens is really off.
Forgot - individual companies have kept producing more than demand, it's just that most of the time the industry in question doesn't. The companies that make the bad decisions tend to die off though.
With a command economy, that doesn't happen. The weak (bad decision makers) are not eaten.
People keep confusing Communism with the pseudo-socialist autocracies and olligarchies calling themselves "communist" or "socialist" and running command economies while oppressing the plebs and silencing dissent. This allows (is encouraged by) capitalist power brokers who try to crush the plebs as much as China and North Korea's leaders do - and dread the workers realising they are being vampired by the billionaire class.
America doesn't want Korean reunification. Hey, every household in North Korea grow their own food in the backyard. They are trying to become self sufficient.
You mean China doesn't want unification, because in their minds that places a US ally on their border.
The US doesn't want the cost or headache, but I doubt they actively don't want it. The current state of affairs doesn't really benefit them at all.
North Korea has recently given up on the idea of reunification
In near future, the poor Korea is the South Korean , my friend keeping in mind
bullxhit lol
South Korea: open, export-oriented economy. North Korea: closed, self-reliant economy.
@@cxzcvnndghrdjuuopkhfourth time you’ve posted North Korean propaganda as a response. Very ineffective comrade.
@@morstyrannis1951 many are ignorance of their country the US is the main cause, are you try to hide that?
@@morstyrannis1951is it a lie ? USA dollar dominance will Fall someday then we shall see if sanctions will remain effective
@@jetli740The Us hasn't sanctioned Korea anymore than Russia and China did. Not only that they didn't veto UN resolutions against NK, they even voted for them.
@@stefan5730 you really dont know nothing about Usa sanction N korea
Manchuria was a place where three out of four totalitaianism since 1930s interwined: the Chinese communists, the Soviets and the Imperial Japanese. Bloodbath. This influenced North Korea a lot. For example, tens of thousands of NK forces just before the Korean War were seasoned guerrila fighters who had served the CCP's PLA during the Chinese civil war.
In the Yalta meeting in early 1945, Roosevelt gave up the whole Korean Peninsula in order to use the Soviets against the one million strong Japanese Eastern Army(Kwantung Army, 関東軍) in China and Manchuria. In August, the Soviets swallowed up the Northern part and proceeded to the South.
The US, aftrer the nuclear bombs, changed its mind and decided to keep the Southern part. The divsion along the 38th parallel.
The Soviets put up a young Soviet officer as the head in the North. Kim Il Sung of the 88th International Brigade.
In the South, people stuck togther around an old but brilliant leader, Dr. Rhee who had led the liberal(I mean classical liberalism such as that of Edmund Burke or Alexander Hamilton) independence movement since 1898.
The US, especially the State Department, just did not know what to do about Korea. Dr. Rhee had to go through a lot of tension and internal fight against the US. There is a saying here. " It is a lot easier to fight against the communists; but really hard to struggle with the US."
South Korea is an accidental free republic in the sense that the US policy and geopolitics suddenly changed after two nuclear bombs.
South Korea is a destiny in the sense that, in 1904, there already appeared a perspective like this:
- Modern civilizaition will develop into a global system. (Dr. Rhee's Princeton dissertation in 1910 said 'the US is destined to promote freedom of navigation and free trade.' He was a political exile in the US when it was the second closest ally of Japan after the UK.)
- A free, democratic republic is the best regime.
- Modern civilization is all about individuality. If we do not want to be 'ture' individuals, we would not need independence.
In 1922, Dr. Rhee wrote "Why Communism cannot help failure?" in a shrot, laconic essay.
1) Without private property, people get lazy.
2) Without businessmen, no innovation.
3) Without the learned, people get ignorant.
4) Without religion, amorality.
5) Do not believe in the Communist internationalism. The Soviet Russia is only a state.
In 1941, before the Pearl Harbor, Dr. Rhee wrote in English 'Japan Inside Out'. This book became a bestseller in the US just after the Pearl Harbor. As a book, this is the first one to explain the totalitarian collective psychology. And it is so prophetic: "Americans are infatuated with the dillusion that they can avoid war in Europe and in the Pacific. However, the Japanese will attack no matter how much the Americans prefer peace. Americans will be dragged into two wars, in Europe and in the Pacific. And the US will win. However, the US will have to fight this 70 million poeple war machine(Japan). The US can arm Koreans and let them fight."
In short, the geopolitics and the leadership ( a 33 year old Soviet officer) made North Korea. The geoplitics and the leadership and people who chose the leader and who stuck around the leader made South Korea.
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South Korea was a Dictatorship until 1988 being an accident was more than just US deciding to keep it, it was the South Korean people (who had to rebel at the cost of lives) who made it free and democratic.
That was quite a knowledgable comment, well done!
1) Without private property, people get lazy. yes they worked 12-16 in factory
2) Without businessmen, no innovation. really ? USSR one most innovated country, China more innovated then USA
3) Without the learned, people get ignorant. well, check USA :) before communism in russia only 17 % percent can write - read 10 year almost 90 %
4) Without religion, amorality. check USA :) zero morality
5) Do not believe in the Communist internationalism. The Soviet Russia is only a state. really ? Cuba ,china, eastern Europe ?
@@remethtiamat7950 1) Without private property, people get lazy. yes they worked 12-16 in factory
2) Without businessmen, no innovation. really ? USSR one most innovated country, China more innovated then USA
3) Without the learned, people get ignorant. well, check USA :) before communism in russia only 17 % percent can write - read 10 year almost 90 %
4) Without religion, amorality. check USA :) zero morality
5) Do not believe in the Communist internationalism. The Soviet Russia is only a state. really ? Cuba ,china, eastern Europe ?
@@gyeppmesterChina became a great country once it embarrassed free market ideas.
North Koreans need freedom, but that will come if South Korea will liberate the North.
They especially need to pay volvo's cars it's due from the 70s and after that they might regain some favors trade wise
@@jevousdse32 The payment will come after liberation, not before.
At $267,000@, those Volvos sure are expensive cars!
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@@dragosstanciu9866 in any case it should happen be it before or after
I mean it's not just cars to be exact @@freetolook3727
Also,,,remember Margret Thatchers quote "The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money"
Sums up North Korea pretty well
National Geographic map of The World At Night says it all.
Fun fact, Czechoslovakia donated not just trams, that are still in use in North Korea, but also a number of class 475.1 steam locomotives known as "The Noblewoman". At the time, this was one of the most advanced steam engines in the world
czechoslovakia was communist?
@@jont2576 Yes, forced by the Russians to be.
@@jont2576In 1948 the Soviets launched a communist coup in Czechoslovakia and turned it into a satellite state.
What’s interesting is this (along with the Berlin blockade) are the main reasons NATO was originally formed. Western Europe was worried the Soviets would pick them off one at a time, so the alliance was created as a way to make it clear messing with any other country from that point on would be considered messing with everyone, including the Americans.
bro i am from bulgaria and here we have a lot of trains from Czehoslovakia still in use
@newwordordermaping7891 no wonder bulgaria comes second in poverty after N korea
Lmao!!! Same country Putin is begging for help ?😂😂😂😂
fun fact
north koreas economy was already stronger under imperial japans colonial rule. japan modernized and built a large industrial infrastructure in the northern half of the korean peninsular to exploit NK rich mineral resources. NKs output reached 80% with industrial products, while south koreas output was 70% agrecultural.
After liberation dprk founder Kim Il Sung seized the industrial assets that japan left behind and
used it for war preparation to launch an invasion into the south
Interesting perspective. But weren't most of the North Korean industrial infrastructure destroyed during the Korean War? What you are describing does not seem to explain what happened after the armstice.
Communism
Im cuban ive been to cuba countless times yes there is secret police you cant talk down on the governmet but you could go wherever you want pretty much in the island except like governemt buildings which you cant even do that here in the usa so i feel for north korea bc there level of commiunism is crazy
10 million tons of rice per day? Dang, is Kim Jung eating ALL of that himself?! Hmm, seems unlikely. I bet that's a typo you just read without parsing it.
Its 2024 and we still need to explain communism = bad?
Well there never was a communist country ever in history.
Its more like.
Dictatoeship+militaristic state+ central planed economy= bad
Mate you'd be surprised. The amount of people thinking communism works is crazy.
The amount of people thinking China, North Korea, and Russia ran communism is crazy. No-one has had the tech or cultural base to do it, they all slid into some form of oppressive oligarchy and command economy - rather than listen to the people, and set up ways for the people to limit leaders' actions
The juxtaposition between "how north Korea got so poor" to advertising an extensive wallet is tragic and hilarious
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In defense of North Korea its better then every African country 😂
Namibia… South Africa… Botswana?
I think we can't compare... People go to jail if they have relatives who do crimes, like wtf?? Every place has its struggles. :/
Yeah that's delusional.... clearly you've never been to Africa
@@RedCommunistDragon really! , name me one third world country that can make it own satellite and launch it with it own rocket,
@@RedCommunistDragonYES.
Why was India not sanctioned and pushed into this state, after the Pokran tests? Cause it failed? or, cause it was non-aligned?
It think that was before the nuclear profilation treaties. So it was legal to make nukes back then actually.
Yes it was sanctioned
At 15:19 there's some bad editing he repeated himself, come on editor, besides that great video
at 2:24 he said "north korean grain production exceeded 10 million tons per day"
Why they poor they use to build the tallest tower.
I am Korean. The most significant difference is that North Korea received military and economic assistance from China, while South Korea received military and economic aid from the United States and the Western world. China has a GDP per capita of less than $10,000, and due to its large population, they were preoccupied with their own survival, making it difficult to help their allies substantially. On the other hand, South Korea, as one of the allies of the United States, enjoyed prosperity and a GDP per capita of almost $40,000, thanks to significant technological and economic assistance from the United States and the Western world.
You know North Korea could get investment from non Western countries only problem is they don't allow it. Their whole economy is based on state control aka socialism
US sanction and threaten every other country from trade with north Korea.
N Korea poor is because of US. This video dont address that
Had Russia and China not trained and supplied North Korea's army and started the Korean War, South Korea wouldn't have gotten that military & economic aid. After WWII America couldn't go home fast enough for it's liking.
That US aid only amounted to $12.6B through 1976. The US had a LOT of other commitments. Propping up South Korea wasn't that big an interest.
You also ignore the large number of good choices made by the South Korean government in the 70's to modernizing it's economy. Critically, the military government did not kill the Golden Goose as North Korea did.
bullsh*. We are talking history. And you take the GDP figures of the present
Finally an Englishman that can say "effortlessly". Ask Simon Whistler if he can say "effortlessly"
Because of socialism.
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how did North korea become so miserably poor? same reason how cuba, chile, venezuela and China during the 50s,60s,70s and half a dozen more countries i forgot became miserably poor.......brutal draconian sanctions and embargoes imposed upon them by the mighty and economic superpower USA during the 20th century..... crippling their already weak economies causing the povery, misery and suffering of tens of millions of people for decades upon decades.
but the tides are changing, the world outside of US and Europe especially asia,africa and south america is starting to develop rapidly and rise up and challenge the tyranny of US hegemony.......hopefully one day we will see these countries free from the oppressive yoke of imperialist US policies and able to trade freely with the rest of the world again and the alleviation of their peoples suffering.
right now North korea is trapped in a political and economic limbo and darkness, partly because of their government and society and culture that has become trapped in a terrible reclusive existence for so many years.....and partly because of powerful external forces keeping them isolated and a world pariah and trapped in a neverending limbo, unless strong actions is taken to stop cruxifying north korea, and to help her open up develop and rehabilitate back to the normal world again......tens of millions of koreans will forever live a non existence....
i hope they find emanicipation and redemption soon just like palestine and many other victims of US policy, god bless and god speed.
Your misery life is not caused by anyone, change that thinking
More like moronic planed economy. China healed when they liberalized the market. The thing is you cannot control the Economy it is a part of every day life. Communist countries couldn't even feed their people.
2:28 10 million tonnes per day!! Sounds like you're making up BS 😂
Do you need 22 minutes to say just because there is an extreme lefty in the command?
Not an extreme lefty - an emperor, by another name. The Koreans, like the Chinese and Russians, are definitely not "leftist" - they have just used some of the words as cover for traditional power systems, just as many of the right-wing "Evangelicals" preaching "the prosperity gospel", hatred of immigrants and outsiders, and the overthrow of elected government, claim to be Christians.
They don't serve the one true and living God or believe in His Son Jesus
We can't predict its future, but we do know that Kim Jong Un is just waiting for an opportunity to throw a punch at the U.S. & South Korea.
Yes, but they want to make it look like the others started it
pronounce juche with an e. not joosh D.A. NYC
u said juche wrong js
the first time u forgot the e at the end
When he does. His sister is even worse 🥺
This is a very good video. Keep it up.
this topic has been done to death
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Because Kim spends all the money on toilet paper.
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Because they think differently from the rest of the world.
And people will say “that was real socialism/communism”. 🤦🏾♂️
The Soviet Union had a GDP comparible to Italy during parts of the cold war.
Not really relevant but interesting noone the less.
8:30 workers worked themselve to the bone. And they did not get any compensation. That is not a great model for the long run...
Just look to the 996 work model in China ... For a short time one can put work before Family, friends, health and happiness as fix, but it can not last.
They are not poor in the worker’s paradise. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Communism is just a floor, and it's actually a monarchy country after the three generations of dictatorships for over 70 years, so can the country work properly?
The country doesn't get a lot of income from abroad. Very low tourism, no overseas workers and very few exported products
Why do guys put over the top background music every 30second
Despite the love of body-positivity enthusiasts in rich countries for red fascism (communism/socialism), the fact is that their lifestyle of choice is the privilege of a very few in what they regard as perfect societies...
Two minutes of content, two minutes of ads and eighteen minutes of filler. They just keep asking the same question over and over.
I can't find the Ekster design over on the Ridge wallet website, RIP.
"This video is made possible by inhuman despotism... And a wallet."
I notice one eye is slightly bruised/swollen . Is the AI generated?
Spend all the money for thing the don't need for people the don't like. China poe Bear iam talking to you
Bell-bottoms and 8-tracks.
What was it like working on the TNG set with Sir Patrick Stewart?
Without social controls in place, like worker rights, food standards, things introduced with social revolutions, capitalism is just a euphemism for some form of feudalism successor.
Private property is a feudal idea; and most people don't have universal empathy.
Kim just looks like he was bullied
When was North Korea not poor?
Is it true… that Kim ate all the spies ?
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No N k is not poor
One krona, many kronor :)
Video starts at 1:16
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I don't know
N korea looks nice compared to Cuba
That place is decrepit run down
You can visit Cuba and they at least give the people homes, at least what I hear. Still a struggle in all these places, but North Korea is pure evil to their people, they have to be obsessed over their leader and be forced to act like they're all ok. :(
@@rosygutierrez-m6z Cuba same
And you the houses they get ?
Falling down dumps
Pyongyang looks much nice than Havana
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In terms of North Korea initially outperforming China economically in terms of GDP per capita, I wonder if that could be down to China's much population and geographic area, combined with inequality within the country - i.e. there were many more poor people and subsistence farmers in China compared to North Korea at the time. I wonder how the two would compare if assessed just from their respective industrial centres.
It is because of the legacy Japanese investments on mines and industry in the north, the south of the peninsula was mostly agricultural thus the other fact that at one point Koreans preferred to settle on the North rather than the South during the split.
If you were to look at industrial centers alone, it wouldn't amount to much difference as the whole of China didn't have the same industrial boom that Imperial Japan did due to foreign influence (nine power treaty). Plus there were the damages caused during WW2, the most industrial cities in China were near the coast and those got caught up by the war. The Korean peninsula was relatively untouched by any fighting so the North had a pretty good industrial start during its inception.
@@madensmith7014 Wouldn't the Korean War have negated some of those initial advantages? Also, I think the charts were indicating North Korean being ahead of China per capita in the 70s and 80s too; well after the the initial post-WWII period.
North Korea is a large state area wise
Because of the war and sanctions. The same is Why Ukraine still poor even though it live under the US democracy since 2014
Wow thanks for all the BS
Because you are so greedy