Posted by Tina
Reports of rampant starvation in North Korea have been going on for years. By 2002 the BBC reported that the North Korean people were surviving by eating grass. Now the well fed leader has finally decided to allow his people to buy food from private markets:
SEOUL — Bowing to reality, the North Korean government has lifted all restrictions on private markets — a last-resort option for a leadership desperate to prevent its people from starving. In recent weeks, according to North Korea observers and defector groups with sources in the country, Kim Jong Il’s government admitted its inability to solve the current food shortage and encouraged its people to rely on private markets for the purchase of goods. – Washington Post
Ahhhh…the humanity of the Marxist model!
We need only to look around the globe to see what makes our freedoms so precious. Small government and a free market economy supported by the rule of law is far, far superior.