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Surprising Positive Things that North Korea Enjoy Despite Dictatorship

North Korea is famously known for its dictatorial government under their President Kim Jong Un. The country has been known to experience very harsh living conditions, due to how it is secretive in almost every sector.

Surprising Positive Things that North Korea Enjoy Despite Dictatorship
Photo/Courtesy: President Kim Jong Un with his official security.

However, despite of all the country having many disadvantages, there are a couple of advantages that they enjoy.

Low Gini Coefficient

Gini Coefficient is a statistical measure of economic inequality in a population.

The coefficient measures the dispersion of income or distribution of wealth among the members of a population. 

Based on estimated Gini Coefficient, North Korea has less income inequality than the US, Canada, UK, and France – among many other developed nations.

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Surprising Positive Things that North Korea Enjoy Despite Dictatorship
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Since their is a saying about how income inequality is the root of all evil, I can only assume that North Korea is a wonderland made up of refugees from the backward nations I named above.

Free education

Every students in North Korea can get 12 years free education. Kindergarten for 1 – 2years. primary school for 5 years. Middle school 3 years. High school 3 years. 1st of April is opening school day for every year.

Surprising Positive Things that North Korea Enjoy Despite Dictatorship
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Every students gets a school bag, school uniform, shoes and some stationaries. These are all given for free and students will be send to the school where is near there house.

Education there is very well there. And people are very polite. There is 99%-100% no illiteracy.

Free housing

Anyone (normally male) who wants to get married can write an application to ask for a house or apartment from the company that he works for.

After this the company will then distribute a house to the couple and the house will be close to this person’s working place.

According to the contribution about this person in this company or for the country he will get a corresponding house. However, for a big family they will get a corresponding big house or apartment.

Surprising Positive Things that North Korea Enjoy Despite Dictatorship
Photo/Courtesy: Apartments in North Korea.

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Normally in the city community young people will live in the high floor. The elderly people live in the low floor cause the electricity always stop in the city. The house and appartments are not belong to the private.

They all belong to the country. So there is no real estate agency in North Korea.

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