Listen to Your North Korean Superiors
An Chul-jin, a «North Korean member of the 'North Korean elite class' » living in PRC, vents his indignation at South Korean protesters in Seoul. Amid the rants, there's confirmation of the parlous diet most North Koreans scramble to put together and a strong rebuke.
I had never in my life eaten beef until recently. I have had it several times in China. In North Korea I only ate chicken, duck, pork and dog meat. In North Korea, cows are treated like humans. Cows are a means of production on the farm. If you don't have a cow, you cannot farm the land.
So people don't use cows for food. Cows that die of old age are loaded into trucks and no one knows where they're taken. Individuals aren't allowed to raise cows; when a calf is born it is registered as national property. There is never an instance of raising one in order to eat it as one chooses. How could we eat our national means of production?»
An (a pseudonym) also calls South Korea «...a country in a transitional stage of development...not a completely realized democratic society.» OUCH! That stings!
I think the protesters are a minority that don't representative the South Korean population. I would urge them to stop. If someone feels threatened by U.S. beef, they don't have to buy and eat it. They should think of the nation and their neighbor North Korea rather than themselves. For North Koreans who only get to eat meat a few times a year, this is very sad to see.
Well, I'm glad the yardstick for democratization is not North Korean elites' opinions, no matter how condescending their paternalistic concern is.
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