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Legeto t1_j5tequp wrote

Reply to comment by mrcolon96 in North Korea locks down capital Pyongyang over respiratory illness | North Korea by AugustWolf22

North Korea is nuts when it comes to media. They use it to get things, usually food from the US or South Korea especially during the winter when food is short because they don’t have enough farmers. I wouldn’t put it past their leaders using this for something too because they won’t provide their own people with anything willingly.

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iGoalie t1_j5tje4d wrote

To that point, the harmony hack (100 million dollars stolen) was attributed to the Lazarus group (aka North Korea state hackers)

This maybe an attempt to change the narrative

It could also just be their govt is fucked up and evil and killing its own people

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TheManassaBaller t1_j5v51eo wrote

Wasn't that attributed to them quite a while back? Why would announcing a covid lockdown now be an attempt to change that narrative? How are they related at all?

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iGoalie t1_j5vico1 wrote

This one was just attributed yesterday … but there are plenty of other hacks you could be thinking of

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cutestslothevr t1_j5ud2ae wrote

It's more lack of quality land to farm than the number of farmers. Historically, South Korea was where the farming/food production was and the more mountainous North was more industrial. North Korea used Soviet and Chinese aid and over farmed the land that they could, but they have a pretty cold climate and unpredictable rain, so now that they can't get fertilizer and equipment such as water pumps as easily they barely feeding the population during a good year.

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Kenny__Loggins t1_j5u2u90 wrote

Every country is nuts with the media. It just looks different when you're talking about an empire vs a struggling nation like NK.

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