Juche has done a good job with mitigating their effects and still doing poverty eradication. Post collapse of the Soviet Union there were definitely some famines, but I think that’s before the major UN sanctions go implemented in 2006. By that time they were pretty much self-sufficient anyway.
I’m not knocking the DPRK’s efforts, but they still have a pretty high child malnutrition rate because Juche is not magic, even if it’s not remotely as bad as during the Arduous March.
True, they would be doing a lot better without sanctions. Probably more of the reason it’s not in this study is because figures from the DPRK are hard to come by and just ignored mostly.
Juche has done a good job with mitigating their effects and still doing poverty eradication. Post collapse of the Soviet Union there were definitely some famines, but I think that’s before the major UN sanctions go implemented in 2006. By that time they were pretty much self-sufficient anyway.
I’m not knocking the DPRK’s efforts, but they still have a pretty high child malnutrition rate because Juche is not magic, even if it’s not remotely as bad as during the Arduous March.
True, they would be doing a lot better without sanctions. Probably more of the reason it’s not in this study is because figures from the DPRK are hard to come by and just ignored mostly.