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DeepState_Secretary t1_jacfliu wrote

North Korea is interesting.

They’re an agrarian state essentially, yet simultaneously are bad at farming and have pretty much been depleting their own soil since the regime came into power.

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TjW0569 t1_jaekj2v wrote

Which is weird when you think about it, because at the end of WW2, the north end of Korea was the rich industrialized part with steel mills, etc.

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DeepState_Secretary t1_jaepihu wrote

From what I’ve read it apparently to do with government mismanagement and badly thought out agricultural reform.

Apparently in recent years the government has been trying to find more and make more arable land and that rice production has been falling.

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