'The Privileged' Store in North Korea - Part 2
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Channel: Jaka Parker
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Length: 16min 12sec (972 seconds)
Published: Mon Aug 22 2016
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You can’t. I’m a white American who lived in Iran from 2009-2011.
I’m a legitimate white Southerner from rural southeast Arkansas.
They told me Iran is a dangerous terrorist country. The told me Iranians have to drink goat milk and ride camels everywhere. They told me people live in abject fear of government.
Seriously? Nothing was further from the truth. I saw an advanced industrial economy and huge respect for religious and other freedoms. I saw Sikhs, Baptists, Jews, Christians of every stripe, Atheists, Zoroastrians, and others.
ZERO PROBLEMS. Actually those people had more rights. I saw people freely discussing politics in public.
I never saw anyone riding a camel. LOLOLOL
Unfortunately you probably cannot because people believe these conspiracy theories because of pure ideology, not because of evidence or honest scientific thinking. Even pointing out the hypocrisy of pretending to care about "inequality" in the DPRK in the face of the disgusting levels of inequality in the "free world", where some people live in the streets in debt and others have more personal wealth than the GDP of most countries in the world, won't effect most believers because they'll just respond with some banalities about "freedom" and "personal choice".
These stores exist.
They are not a “privileged store” so much as stores that exist to facilitate the spending of hard currency by tourists, domestic and international workers who receive wages in foreign currency, and foreign diplomatic staff.
Similar stores existed in the USSR and other socialist states with limited access to hard currency.
USSR Foreign Currency Store
PRC Foreign Currency Store
DDR Foreign Currency Store
PPR Foreign Currency Store
Cuba Foreign Currency Store
These stores exist because the DPRK’s currency is not internationally exchanged or recognized and therefore the state must rely on foreign currency for international trade and imports.