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[-] bighi@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Sorry, I thought you mentioned food just as an example of stuff in general.

Food is a bit easier to trade with NK, although there’s pressure for countries to not do that.

If I’m not mistaken, they mostly bought food from China. But they stopped when the pandemic hit, as an attempt to preserve their country.

I also remember Brazil (where I live) invested a little bit in trading basic resources like food with “undesirable” countries like NK and Venezuela. But it’s very complicated because they can’t use the normal international means of bank transfer, and there were people complaining about feeding crazy countries. Of course, “crazy” means you don’t jump when imperialists say “jump”.

But anyway, not being able to easily transfer money makes it harder. And they’re far away, which makes it more expensive.

If it wasn’t for countries like China, these embargoed socialist countries would be in a much worse situation. I hope NK’s food trade with China goes back to normal, because no one deserves to starve.

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