Picture of the Day: North Korean Artillery Drill
The artillery units under the North Korean People’s Corps 7 and Corps 9 take part in an artillery fire competition on March 12, 2020, in this combined photo taken from the website of the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the next day. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected the competition, with the KCNA stopping short of disclosing the competition’s location. (Yonhap)
How much money did they just spend on munitions, let alone weapons, fuel, and so on?
How many bags of rice, jars of kimchi, milk, and how much medicine could they have purchased for that?
How much would a dozen “regional well-baby clinics” cost? How many nork babies are going to die this year from lack of nutrition and proper medicine?
Sure, every nation needs self defense and law enforcement; but the legitimacy of a government is based on how well it takes care of its people. If the government chooses central planning over free markets, it is morally-required to take care of internal problems before starting foreign adventures. If the people are starving, the leaders of such a state are directly to blame.
Before some local wit tries to point at America, it’s worth noting we are still resisting central planning and the greatest health issue facing our poor is obesity. That doesn’t make us perfect, just fat… like KJU…