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Re:North Korea’s one-percenters savor life in ‘Pyonghattan’ by Spooky23 on Sunday May 15, 2016 @12:26PM (#11701507)
It's time consuming to get generators like that in the US.

I imagine that getting them in an embargoed country like North Korea is expensive and difficult. Competent operations and maintenance is probably tough too.

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Re:North Korea’s one-percenters savor life in ‘Pyonghattan’ by ChuckMcM on Sunday May 15, 2016 @03:56PM (#11702460)
Agreed but reliable generators are a key component to fielding an effective military, and the leadership seems to spend lavishly on the military. Perhaps it would motivate a local capability to build such generation capacity? I don't know, just guessing here.
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