Comments by "Gorilla Disco" (@gorilladisco9108) on "How North Korea Became So Miserably Poor" video.

  1. 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.
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