11/17/2008

Quote of the day

Filed under: Japan, Korea — Tim @ 10:48 pm

Reuters:

North Korea has the potential to generate about 7,800 megawatts of power, but fuel shortages have reduced output to less than a third of this. The shortfall in turn has kept more than two-thirds of its industrial facilities idle.

North Korea’s electrical grid still relies on facilities built by Japan during its 1910-1945 colonial rule over the peninsula.

I mention a similar empirical data point in a footnote regarding North Korea’s dependence on Japan… Imperial Japan.

It truly is a bastion of greener pastures.