Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Why North Korea Starves" video.

  1.  @haruruben  In other words, North Korea ran out of other people's money.
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  2. Yet the loss of Soviet aid coupled with its inefficient central planning did far more damage.
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  3. Chinese aid, human and drug trafficking, etc.
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  4. Courtesy of Kim Jong-un.
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  5. Except the elite.
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  6. And then they regressed even with all the Soviet help they got.
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  7.  Armament Armed Arm  No it wasn't. North Korea's pathetic state is of its own making.
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  8. North Korea is far from industrialized. <give free homes, food, education, and healthcare to the biggest part of its population,> Yet no economy or progress to put any of them to good use in making them a pointless waste.
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  9. Not really. And the rest of the world doesn't owe North Korea anything.
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  10. Especially in places where Democrats are in charge.
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  11.  Armament Armed Arm  At least the US can produce its own food, because its agricultural model is actually efficient and adequate. Something North Korea just isn't and certainly hasn't been since Kim Il-Sung took charge.
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  12. Because communists are generally amateurs when it comes to running nations.
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  13.  @view1st  <Cubans too.> Thanks to US food aid.
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  14. Otto Warmbier.
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  15. When they say that communism is a system for workers, what they really mean is it's a system for government bureaucrats.
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  16.  @EricChien95  Bad analogy. North Korea regressed with Kim Il-Sung's policies having to resort to Soviet, Chinese and international aid to compensate for the inefficiencies and inadequacies of the model the country operated under.
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  17. Because Kim is a liability. Plus Russia and China are tired of supporting a deadbeat country.
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  18.  @dengxiaopinggaming5500  But it came at the expense of its economy that ran on fumes once the US military spending exposed it.
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  19.  @view1st  Only because of Deng's capitalist reforms and Clinton's outsourcing of US manufacturing jobs.
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  20. Funded by George Soros and some of them were well-to-do college kids from Canada.
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  21.  @gtPacheko  Well, government bureaucrats are the people. Are they not? North Korea is socialist. Sorry, tankie!
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  22. But Kim Jong-Un has succeeded in starving the DPRK.
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  23.  @AM-zk7pj  North Korea earned its painting. And the US has nothing to do with it.
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  24. LOL. Most capitalist countries, especially the US have social welfare. <You should make a video on American homeless people... The highest all over the world> Actually that would be Nigeria. America is #10.
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  25. But NK is a product of Soviet/Chinese imperialism.
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  26.  @rft9776  South Koreans live a full 10 years longer than North Koreans.
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  27. Kim Jong-Un's grandfather.
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  28. No. There's a trade blockade, because they rather threaten South Korea and Japan while leeching off of China because their model is too inadequate and inefficient to feed itself than develop an economy that lives up to its Juche name. North Korean leadership is the reason why North Korea is starving, not some capitalists.
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  29.  @EricChien95  North Korea is not owed any trade.
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  30. Pretty much.
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  31. No. Because Kim cares more about power consolidation and the military as the people can eat feces, tree bark and grass for all he cares.
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  32. But will happily be slaves to Russian, Chinese and international handouts.
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  33.  @fsul8536  And ended up regressing.
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  34. In all fairness, communism doesn't work even on paper.
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  35.  Armament Armed Arm  <you cannot reliably attribute anything bad in NK to the NK government. > Yes you can. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement and corruption largely to fuel the Kim regime's power-trips.
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  36. Exactly.
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  37.  @CripplingDuality  And rightfully so.
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  38.  @richardscathouse  No. Like every other dictatorship.
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  39. The last thing China and Russia want is a unified pro-capitalist democracy at their doorsteps.
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  40.  @view1st  While North Korea wouldn't have been a Soviet and Chinese vassal state likewise.
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  41. They were and are socialist/communist IN PRACTICE. Talk is cheap.
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  42. And they can't import food, because they have no industries adequate enough to produce anything worth trading for money to buy it.
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  43. The Kims mismanaged North Korea to ruin.
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  44. Yet North Korea happily submitted itself to Soviet imperialism.
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  45.  @RonSafreed  Don't forget Mongolia.
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  46. Exactly.
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  47. Communists are some of the biggest capitalists around.
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  48. @愛 While NK's homeless are left eat sh-t and die at the capital's outskirts.
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  49.  @blenderbanana  They still have Russia and China. The real problem is the Kim regime.
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  50. Ethiopia had it with Mengistu.
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