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    Out Of Desperation, North Korean Women Become Breadwinners

    So, how $#@!ed up is it in the worlds most reclusive nation?

    http://www.npr.org/2012/12/28/168193...e-breadwinners

    Imagine going to work every day and not getting paid. Then, one day, you're told there's no work to do — so you must pay the company for the privilege of not working.


    This is the daily reality facing Mrs. Kim, a petite 52-year-old North Korean. Her husband's job in a state-run steel factory requires him to build roads. She can't remember the last time he received a monthly salary. When there are no roads to build, he has to pay his company around 20 times his paltry monthly salary, she says.

    "He had to pay not to work for about six months of last year," Mrs. Kim told NPR, sighing. "You have to pay, even if you can't afford to eat. It's mandatory."
    Read through the article. It states that even when NK men do work for mostly state jobs, they rarely get paid, and working those state jobs is mandatory.
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    And if you talk bad about the government, you pay with your life. Glad I live in a place that is at least supposed to be free.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrassrootsConservative View Post
    And if you talk bad about the government, you pay with your life. Glad I live in a place that is at least supposed to be free.
    Right.

    I get pretty discouraged sometimes on what is going on politically in our country but reading stuff like this puts things a little more toward the center for me.

    At the end of the day living in the US is like sex. Bad sex is still pretty good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    Bad sex is still pretty good.
    I wouldn't know.

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