Comments on: The Alternative Reality of Christine Ahn http://freekorea.us/2000/01/09/the-alternative-reality-of-christine-ahn-2/ Tue, 22 May 2012 09:51:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: slim http://freekorea.us/2000/01/09/the-alternative-reality-of-christine-ahn-2/comment-page-1/#comment-69492 slim Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:02:52 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=2003#comment-69492 I forgot how masterful and total this takedown was! I forgot how masterful and total this takedown was!

]]> By: jtb http://freekorea.us/2000/01/09/the-alternative-reality-of-christine-ahn-2/comment-page-1/#comment-69475 jtb Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:12:21 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=2003#comment-69475 Look to Zimbabwe for answers about the famine in North Korea. Both Kim Jong Il and Robert Mugabe got their economics training in Pyongyang by Kim Il Sung... It's all about having everyone in the country on their knees begging for a handful of grain and the Leader is the only one who can provide... Sorta like what the Democrats are trying to do to us here in America... Look to Zimbabwe for answers about the famine in North Korea. Both Kim Jong Il and Robert Mugabe got their economics training in Pyongyang by Kim Il Sung…

It’s all about having everyone in the country on their knees begging for a handful of grain and the Leader is the only one who can provide…

Sorta like what the Democrats are trying to do to us here in America…

]]> By: OneFreeKorea » “Famine in North Korea:” An Interactive Review (1 of 3) http://freekorea.us/2000/01/09/the-alternative-reality-of-christine-ahn-2/comment-page-1/#comment-52063 OneFreeKorea » “Famine in North Korea:” An Interactive Review (1 of 3) Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:33:04 +0000 http://freekorea.us/?p=2003#comment-52063 [...] The greatest value of this book may be how conclusively it destroys the reprehensible falsehoods spoken in Kim Jong Il’s defense, and in favor of artificially sustaining his rule [67].  Crude apologists like Christine Ahn parrot the party-line excuse that the weather and an American “embargo” caused the famine.  Sophisticated apologists like John Feffer blame the weather and North Korea’s lack of good agricultural land, but try to absolve Kim Jong Il of “culpable slowness” in reacting to the famine.  To Noland and Haggard, the question is more than one of production: This problem could probably be solved purely by expenditure switching: shifting the composition of imports away from other priorities. But even taking existing expenditure preferences as given, the improvement in the performance of the export sector needed to address this constraint are modest: the annual import shortfall is not large, in the hundreds of millions of dollars. [211] [...] [...] The greatest value of this book may be how conclusively it destroys the reprehensible falsehoods spoken in Kim Jong Il’s defense, and in favor of artificially sustaining his rule [67].  Crude apologists like Christine Ahn parrot the party-line excuse that the weather and an American “embargo” caused the famine.  Sophisticated apologists like John Feffer blame the weather and North Korea’s lack of good agricultural land, but try to absolve Kim Jong Il of “culpable slowness” in reacting to the famine.  To Noland and Haggard, the question is more than one of production: This problem could probably be solved purely by expenditure switching: shifting the composition of imports away from other priorities. But even taking existing expenditure preferences as given, the improvement in the performance of the export sector needed to address this constraint are modest: the annual import shortfall is not large, in the hundreds of millions of dollars. [211] [...]

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