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Lack of Electricity Adds to Hardships in North Korea's Failed Economy.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003
By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 2--KOSUNG, North Korea -- At nightfall, the port of Changeon, a few hundred yards across this harbor near the DMZ, vanishes into inky blackness, then reappears as a ghostly apparition in the dawn.
So severe is North Korea's energy crisis that on most winter nights, not a single bulb illuminates the ramshackle dwellings, workplaces, or even the harbor's lighthouse.
In this tightly controlled state, propaganda has convinced ordinary people that the United States is to blame for a wrecked economy and for a power deficit that feeds a vicious cycle of food shortages and malnutrition. North Korea says it was the need for electricity that forced it to restart...
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