Quote from bearice:
What is this?
Kim wins re-election with 99.9% of the vote
Kim Jong Il was unanimously re-elected to North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament, state media said Monday, in elections closely watched for signs of a political shift or hints the autocratic leader is grooming a successor.
Turnout Sunday was 99.98 percent, with all voters backing the sole candidate running in their constituency, the official Korean Central News Agency reported
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/world/asia/09iht-north.1.20696199.html?_r=1
Quote from bearice:
What? North Korea has the largest standing army in the world. Is this true?
Why are the world stock markets not crashing? I want to buy shares/stocks at rock bottom prices (dirt cheap). I will be rich.
and I thought North Korea is useless for me.
If you observe nature then you will find that animals who live in isolation in forests/mountains, they become monsters. Example giant crocodiles, giant snakes, big lions, massive Grizzly bears, bull elephants, undiscovered animals.Quote from bearice:
But North Korea is isolated from the world. What is their economy/business? How did they acquire all these big weapons?