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How Corruption Saved the North Koreans
Posted by: Andrei Lankov
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 | http://carnegie.ru/
Posted by: Andrei Lankov
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 | http://carnegie.ru/
“Nobody stole under Stalin,” many old-timers in
the former Soviet Union like to say. Many North Koreans who remember the
reign of Kim Il-sung—known as “The Great Leader,” “Sun of the Nation,”
and “Generalissimo”—felt the same about his regime, which ended with his
death in 1994.
And it’s true that the low level of corruption in that period contrasts sharply with the current state of affairs in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It took just one decade for North Korea, one of the least corrupt countries in East Asia in the early 1990s, to devolve into one of the most corrupt states in a region not known for the integrity of its officials.http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=60339&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonva3NZKXonjHpfsX57uQsW6Sg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIERMV0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEIQ7XYTLB2t60MWA%3D%3D
And it’s true that the low level of corruption in that period contrasts sharply with the current state of affairs in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It took just one decade for North Korea, one of the least corrupt countries in East Asia in the early 1990s, to devolve into one of the most corrupt states in a region not known for the integrity of its officials.http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=60339&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonva3NZKXonjHpfsX57uQsW6Sg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIERMV0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEIQ7XYTLB2t60MWA%3D%3D
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