North Korean Private market
which was started by women in 1996 as a solution to helping feed their families during the Great Famine. It is a bottem up free market ecomomie and Capatialisitc .this is a topic which does not recive very much attention and is overshadowed by Nuclar weapons, predictions of economic collapes and etc.
the private market is impressive and amazing that the North Korean women were able to do this. It could be a model for other countries who have represive regimes or who are stuck in poverty.
I belive the private market it is the change agent in North Korea and that there is a quite social revoluton taking place in North Korea which we are not paying attention to . There is a middle class or the money mastes as they are known which has developed and seems to be growing as the result of the market. The miliume generation is also important becuse this generation wants to make money and many of their parents own shops in the markets.
I also want to, if possible to present this in the context of North Korea .
We have a Korean concept of self reliance which is vey differnt from the US concept which is one of the things which drive the private market. ( Its not Juche but simular)
In my paper I am not interested in addressing human rights issues, stravation ( North Koreans are currently in the under nuouiised catigory) or putting a lot of attention on Weapons of mass distrution or things that the western medis see as being wierd or sensational.
I wish to go beyond the stero types and propganda that keeps us stuck in our views of North Korea and I want of foucs on the the people and how they have created a economic systeme that allows them to servie with in a difficult goverment sturcture.
I see North Korea as like most other developing nations .It has the same problems as many other countries.