Fleeing the hermit kingdom just isn’t what it used to be
March 1, 2017 9:23 AM Subscribe
Erik Thurman's Leaving North Korea, a long-form comic about how difficult it is to escape the Hermit Nation.
The US has continued to maintain an 83,000-strong military force in South Korea, Japan and Guam. An army about the size of South Dakota's entire population.
South Dakota’s population is over 850,000, FWIW...
There’s also a notable typo here: …a 2008 census jointly conducted by the UN and the North Korean estimates the household income of a North Korean family outside of Pyeongyang is about $948-1,361 per year.
Seems like The Nib is a bit quick with editing, and I doubt that they do any fact-checking. That doesn’t matter for their political cartoons, but for this type of comic it really does.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:22 AM on March 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
South Dakota’s population is over 850,000, FWIW...
There’s also a notable typo here: …a 2008 census jointly conducted by the UN and the North Korean estimates the household income of a North Korean family outside of Pyeongyang is about $948-1,361 per year.
Seems like The Nib is a bit quick with editing, and I doubt that they do any fact-checking. That doesn’t matter for their political cartoons, but for this type of comic it really does.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:22 AM on March 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
Ok, so - at this point the post has been up for a day, and no correction has been issued. The author hasn’t said anything on Twitter. The Nib isn’t a news website, but this is pretty shoddy.
posted by Going To Maine at 10:27 PM on March 1, 2017
posted by Going To Maine at 10:27 PM on March 1, 2017
Yesterday I finished reading Kris Lee's How I became a North Korean. I can't recommend it highly enough.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:40 AM on March 2, 2017
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:40 AM on March 2, 2017
I'm not sure what's shoddy about it? the nominal GDP per capita for North Korea is estimated to be about $1,000 in 2015? I suppose the argument then becomes what counts as a household.
The shoddy thing here is the typo: the North Korean instead of North Korea or the North Korean government. It’s not particularly comparable to the other issue, but I think adds to the idea that there isn’t much editing going on.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:23 PM on March 10, 2017
The shoddy thing here is the typo: the North Korean instead of North Korea or the North Korean government. It’s not particularly comparable to the other issue, but I think adds to the idea that there isn’t much editing going on.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:23 PM on March 10, 2017
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South Dakota's population is over 850,000, FWIW...
posted by Esteemed Offendi at 10:09 AM on March 1, 2017 [9 favorites]