Tweet of the Day: Why Do We Care If They Learn More About Commerce?
Engagers usually give this answer when I ask this question in class or at conferences. This strikes e as thin and begs the question what how this experience is making N Korea less dangerous to its own people and the world? Why do we care if they learn about more about commerce? https://t.co/JMHOP9MgpX
— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) July 15, 2018
Gi, can you trandlate? Is Kelly in favor of Norks learning commerce instead of conquest?
gave thousands of nK citizens a taste of what it was like to be a slave labor in a factory instead of a field.
I guess a sweatshop run funded by your Southern brothers is better than digging roads by hand.
So he lives in Fantasyland where the workers downloaded a pay slip on Friday and were paid electronically? If I recall, part of the deal was Kim Fatty got the money first, took out “taxes” (his cut of 99+%), and gave them some change. Chaebols didn’t care, they paid a lot less for NK slave labor and thus made a larger profit, liberal commies in the South loved it as they were “saving their cousins in the North” Consumer in the rest of the world “Made in Korea, I wonder North or South?”
Well, there were Chocopies…
The point I think Kelly is making is that teaching them commerce is irrelevant because it will not change the nature of the regime.
North Korea being allowed to operate a ROK funded quasi-slave labor operation is not going to close the gulags, stop purges and executions, the counterfeit operations and other illegal activities abroad will still happen, and it will do nothing to get rid of the nukes.
That sweatshop paid for those Nuke materials from China. The only commerce they know is selling up a black market and gouging their own kind.
Thanks, GI. The typos and the sad death of satire* had me fooled…
* Many times Vox, Slate, The Atlantic, and others publish things that seem to belong in The Onion or Duffelblog.