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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Is this a contradiction? 99% of people are starving farmers who eat dirt for dinner and 1% are chosen from birth to be taught nothing other than how to hack the West

Edit: i forgot to add /s

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yea, no. The DPRK is poor, but most areas are surprisingly "normal." The period of mass famines was decades ago, it's closer to how Cuba looks than it is to, say, Chad.