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Re:As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens by jaredklewis on Sunday April 30, 2017 @11:29PM (#14235405)
It seems speculative. How do you know that, should there have been no sanctions, these free enterprise systems would not have been introduced anyway? Or even know that would not have been developed more than they are now?

With so many huge changes both inside and outside DPRK during the past decades, to credit the gradual introduction free market systems to sanctions seems tendentious.

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Re:As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens by petre on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:19AM (#14235551)
Sanctions are always better than war. People adapt. Or negotiate their way out. Just look at Iran.

Free market in NK? Maybe free as in the state is too busy caring right now and market as in flea market.

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