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  • Yes, I was looking for something similar I had read. Their agricultural industrial base was very modern at the time built in tandem and reliant on Soviet influence and trade. That reliance on oil to power their industrial machines, when ripped away by shock therapy, was a huge blow, and directly leads to “…the implementation of international aid to the DPRK around 1995” which this article doesn’t address. By denying oil exports to the DPRK, the western block orchestrated the subsequent famines.

    My reading of these events indicated that this was a fully intentional effect of ending oil exports to the DPRK during shock therapy.