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The Lancet has published data concluding that US imposed sanctions cause the deaths of more than 564,000 people each year. More than half of the dead are children under the age of 5. (www.thelancet.com)
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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's kind of odd given the DPRK's UN sanctions . . .

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Juche has done a good job with mitigating their effects and still doing poverty eradication. Post collapse of the Soviet Union there were definitely some famines, but I think that's before the major UN sanctions go implemented in 2006. By that time they were pretty much self-sufficient anyway.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not knocking the DPRK's efforts, but they still have a pretty high child malnutrition rate because Juche is not magic, even if it's not remotely as bad as during the Arduous March.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

True, they would be doing a lot better without sanctions. Probably more of the reason it's not in this study is because figures from the DPRK are hard to come by and just ignored mostly.