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Tommy,
I watched that show also and that was the first time I had heard about that incident. But North Korea is a far different place once you get out of Pyongyang ( spelling ) where they have build it up for the show case area. The common villagers have nothing. Their Govt. takes everything for the military and if our Govt. would quit giving theirs money, their own troops would soon tire of not getting paid and fed. That is one reason they have such a huge army. As soon as any person there is old enough they join the military so they can have food and get paid some also. I don't know what the NK pay scale is but when I was over there the South Korea pay scale was about $100 a month for a General. Our Lieutenants made far more per month than their Generals, and I doubt id NK pays much more if as much.
Ron
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