“People are busy. They work 48 hours a week. . . . We found Pyongyang to be a bustling city. . . . And after working hours, they pack the department stores, which Rosalynn visited. I went in one of them. It’s like Wal-Mart in American stores on a Saturday afternoon. They all walk around in there, and they seem in fairly good spirits. Pyongyang at night looks like Times Square. They are really heavily into bright neon lights and pictures and things like that.”
—Former Democrat President Jimmy Carter’s observations on life in North Korea
One year after making this observation, the communist regime of North Korea managed to create a famine that would kill two million (out of a population of twenty million) in just four years. The famine was not due to weather or natural disaster, but poor planning by the government .
Quoted in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism by Paul Kengor
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