Higher semiconductor industry is the most preciously guarded monopoly of the west. It involves the most precise motors, nuclear industry-grade X-ray mirrors, perfect optics, impeccable hygiene with expensive materials to create a cutting chamber flooded by inert gas, and a great deal of expertise that requires a strong education system + industrial controls and cannot by any means be boiled down to blueprints, making it vulnerable to any financial faltering that sheds the labor force with the knowledge it retains. DPRK will be more prepared to get into semiconductors than Ohio or Arizona in a historically short time. The fact that even Vietnam is getting into it now shows the fundamentals are slipping away from them. Your message will be yet another time capsule of western Asia-watching. In other words “added to my cringe compilation”.

How did these assumptions work out versus Iran?

You would be shocked how easy it is to put people into empty houses. It’s even easier than putting them into occupied ones. The technology exists, if western asset-holders would consider it.

On a serious note, the transition from Soviet-style autarky to the present is almost impossible. DPRK shows resilience and flexibility under sanctions that contradicts notions of a rigid top-down political system. IMHO they could get away with opening up more to foreign investment considering their iron grip on industrial management, which is the key, but that comes with downsides they may be unwilling to deal with. It’s their choice in the face of the completion of an attempted aerial genocide by the States. Their stalling tactics brought them into a present where what they consider safe and developed trade partners exist.

I wish that people would go on Rednote and see tourist videos from the DPRK. Just see for yourself rather than listening to journalists who don’t even speak Korean, or live in political systems that cage people en masse and tolerate open fascism, WWII history revisionism absolving Japan, you name it. Hopefully this article is a wake-up call to some people but I doubt it.

Sorry to be nosy, but how can you not love this guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y1KqGOyZ-0

We’ve seen what happens once the liberal NGOs get the ball rolling in Syria and other countries. They bring in the brownshirts like ISIS.

Also he’s on his woke arc now, he said he thinks gay people are harder-working (smarter) than anyone, which as internet denizens we must admit is a #trvke. All my most powerful moots are gay

It fuckinf rules shut up