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Kim now wants to legislate to make North Korea a "socialist fairyland".

2022-09-08T14:54:46.426Z


Kim now wants to legislate to make North Korea a "socialist fairyland". Created: 09/08/2022, 16:43 By: Felix Durach North Korean President Kim Jong-un during a photo op with students and young workers taking part in the military parade in the North Korean capital. © dpa The economic situation in North Korea is bad. Now ruler Kim Jong-un wants to turn the country into a "socialist fairytale cou


Kim now wants to legislate to make North Korea a "socialist fairyland".

Created: 09/08/2022, 16:43

By: Felix Durach

North Korean President Kim Jong-un during a photo op with students and young workers taking part in the military parade in the North Korean capital.

© dpa

The economic situation in North Korea is bad.

Now ruler Kim Jong-un wants to turn the country into a "socialist fairytale country" - by law.

Pyongyang – Whether the population in North Korea is actually groaning under an ongoing economic crisis cannot be properly verified.

However, all signs point to it.

As a result of the corona pandemic, the dictatorial state has isolated itself even more from the rest of the world.

The government of ruler Kim Jong-un has repeatedly sealed off the country's borders for imports to prevent virus cases from being imported into North Korea.

The measures were also taken because the coronavirus continues to pose a health threat to the largely unvaccinated and sometimes malnourished population.

North Korea suffers from economic crisis - help from South Korea rejected

The government of neighboring South Korea estimates that North Korea's gross domestic product has also fallen for the second year in a row.

In the first year of the pandemic, the country suffered the biggest economic slump since the 1990s at 4.5 percent.

This is reported by the

editorial network Germany

.

And the future prospects for North Korea are anything but rosy.

The country is also being burdened by the international sanctions imposed on North Korea's nuclear program.

However, the regime of ruler Kim Jong-un denies reports that the country is suffering from the crisis.

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol recently offered economic aid to the neighboring country in exchange for nuclear disarmament.

However, the offer was rejected by Pyongyang.

"No one trades their destiny for a corn cake," ruler Kim Jong Un's powerful sister Kim Yo Jong told

KCNA

news agency about the proposal. 

Kim Jong-un wants to turn North Korea into a "socialist fairyland" - through legislation

The state news agency also reported on Thursday that ruler Kim Jong-un passed two laws to counteract the economic crisis.

The laws aim to make North Korea a "beautiful and civilized socialist fairyland," reports

KCNA

, citing a speech by a deputy in the Supreme People's Assembly.

So a fairytale development by law.

Kim Jong-un reportedly did not attend the meeting but promised to improve people's living conditions and boost the country's development.

The United States accuses the government of investing the available resources primarily in nuclear armament and not using them for the benefit of the population.

The government in Pyongyang recently caused a stir when the

New York Times

reported that Russia would buy ammunition from North Korea for use in the Ukraine war.

Kim Jong-un has been North Korea's supreme leader since the death of his father Kim Jong-il in December 2011, making him only the third ruler in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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Source: merkur

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