North Korea's wealth gap

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 3:01am |

By John Feffer, Asia Times Online, March 13, 2012

It's not likely that an Occupy Pyongyang movement will set up tents in Kim Il-sung Square any time soon. Protest, after all, is virtually non-existent in that society. But the same widening inequalities that plague the United States and the global economy can also be found inside North Korea.

What was once a relatively equitable society, albeit at the low end of per-capita gross domestic product, has been experiencing a rapid polarization in wealth. The implications of this widening gap on North Korean government policy - as well as on international policies promoting human security inside North Korea - are enormous. [....]

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