Comments by "Kim Jong-un" (@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un) on "Why Ireland Has Fewer People Than 200 Years Ago" video.
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While the potato led to famine in Ireland, it did the OPPOSITE for us regarding our Arduous March. When the USSR dissolved, and economic collapse caused an electricity shortage that stopped agriculture reliant on irrigation systems, our people faced an Arduous March. The solution my father saw to save the nation? The potato. Easy to grow in the mountainous terrain, grow lots of them, and can use them for so many things.
It's really sad to see the Irish language decline. There are a good few Gaeltachts in Ireland today, and with regular Irish schools teaching it as a subject, but the damage has already been done, Irish is now considered as a "dying language". The education system in Ireland doesn't help either, you don't even learn the language and how to fluently speak it, you just learn how to translate English to Irish.
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