Kim Jong-un Quotes
It is important to launch a mass and society-wide struggle to drastically increase the production of consumer goods.
Kim, Jong-un. New Year Address: January 1, 2015. Foreign Languages Publishing House, 2015.
Abd al-Rahman Ibn Mohammad. He is generally regarded to be the World’s first social scientist. The largest statue in Tunisia of not of a military leader of king, but of this social scientist.
This is one of the greatest economic predictions ever made.
Observing the difference between politics and working in the private sector:
At the time very few industrialists appreciated the value of particular workers and tended to think of them as interchangeable parts.
See {636375} for another similar view applying to the individual.
Foreign trade creates jobs and eliminates jobs. The people who lost jobs as the result of increased foreign trade are readily identified while the job beneficiaries may never know the reason. So it is a hard political sell even though most of the economic studies have showed that more jobs of more value are created by trade than lost. However, the losers are generally blue collar workers while the beneficiaries are generally white collar and knowledge workers. So there is a socioeconomic class differentiation in the trade issue.
Kim Jong-un is a North Korean politician serving as Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is the second child of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea's second supreme leader from 1994 to 2011, and Ko Yong-hui. He is the grandson of Kim Il-sung, who was the founder and first supreme leader of North Korea from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994.