Crisps and Coffee Shops: North Korea's New Consumerism

[Disir]

Crisp packets may seem a shallow way to understand a country. But for North Korea, looking at something as trivial as the packaging of everyday items can shed light on developments in a society still mistakenly regarded as resolutely static. The country’s supermarket shelves are just one of a number of places where North Korea’s growing middle class is absorbing foreign influences and finding new ways to spend its money.

....The fact that this is happening means that it’s perhaps time for us to abandon the tired stereotypes of North Korean society as static and unchanging. The border is more porous than we might think, and new people, goods, and ideas are constantly moving through it.
Crisps and Coffee Shops: North Korea's New Consumerism

It doesn't matter. The ulterior motive (in the last 8 years) is unification.

 

[esthermoon]

The strawberry snow flower bingsu seems to be so tasty

 

[heil hitler]

Crisp packets may seem a shallow way to understand a country. But for North Korea, looking at something as trivial as the packaging of everyday items can shed light on developments in a society still mistakenly regarded as resolutely static. The country’s supermarket shelves are just one of a number of places where North Korea’s growing middle class is absorbing foreign influences and finding new ways to spend its money.

....The fact that this is happening means that it’s perhaps time for us to abandon the tired stereotypes of North Korean society as static and unchanging. The border is more porous than we might think, and new people, goods, and ideas are constantly moving through it.
Crisps and Coffee Shops: North Korea's New Consumerism

It doesn't matter. The ulterior motive (in the last 8 years) is unification.

What level of propagandist tripe is this?

"The country’s supermarket shelves are just one of a number of places where North Korea’s growing middle class is absorbing foreign influences and finding new ways to spend its money."

Growing middle class based on which economy? If it were not fro China purchasing their coal and other raw materials they would literally have no economy. The Hermit Kingdom is just that. An isolated, despot ruled shit hole which hangs from China like a cancerous growth.
Wait...is this from CNN?