Blueberry bandits: Crime spikes as North Koreans forage for survival
"People say this is a world that will gouge your eyes out if you're not careful," a source told The Daily NK
On Aug. 31, two girls from a middle school in Samjiyon went to a blueberry patch in the Mubong area early in the morning and spent the day picking blueberries. While on their way to the blueberry picking area, they ran into robbers. Fortunately, the two girls were not hurt, but the robbers took their buckets of blueberries and their outer clothes.
"People say this is a world that will gouge your eyes out if you're not careful," a source told The Daily NK
On Aug. 31, two girls from a middle school in Samjiyon went to a blueberry patch in the Mubong area early in the morning and spent the day picking blueberries. While on their way to the blueberry picking area, they ran into robbers. Fortunately, the two girls were not hurt, but the robbers took their buckets of blueberries and their outer clothes.
This quote is particularly poignant -
The source quoted a melancholy local as saying the following while observing the night scene: “The parents’ generation picked blueberries to make ends meet, and now the children’s generation is wandering the blueberry patches for the same reason. It’s said that poverty is inherited. Struggle as much as you want, but life will never get better.”
It's fundamental isn't it? this need to work towards a life which is better than it was in the past. It's the underlying threat posed by our elites, their Net Zero ideology effectively insists that this kind of progress must be taken away from ordinary people, from mere consumers.
4 comments:
Actually, it begins to make sense. Our government is keen on high levels of immigration from third world countries, because foraging and robbery are skills that we are going to need in this country when Net Zero kicks in.
Sam - good point which also explains the housing crisis. Clearly we won't need traditional houses when we become Net Zero hunter-gatherers.
Another demonstration that in a society where all are 'equal' (apart from the Dear Leader and his chums) the equality is soon disturbed by ne'er-do-wells who exploit the efforts of others.
So much for Utopia. Not only can we never get there, but if we could we couldn't stay there.
DJ - yes, the propaganda portraying a crime-free Utopia seems to be plagued by ne'er-do-wells, some of them criminals and some of them corrupt officials. They have to stay there too.
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