Make it sound more like that of native E speaker

Here's a little editing I would do. Hope others will chime in.

Let's not argue too much, Jordan. The horrible consequences of starvation in North Korea are mainly due to the Songun polic(y) instituted by Kim Jung Il. It was not caused by the American embargo.

The Songun policy dictated that most of the international food aid was to be used by the NK military force which only serves the dictator.

Do you want evidence? Well, For example: the recent atomic bomb and missile tests have cost NK 0.7 billion USD. With that amount of money you could buy enough food to feed 10 million people for a year. The rest of the world, including China, have all condemned the tests. Yet the NK government continues its stupid Songun policy and lets its people starve (right now!). It threatens the UN by promising to launch a war... Got it Jordan? The suggestion of giving a Nobel Peace Prize to Kim Jung Il is only triggered by your overactive imagination.

0.7 billion dollars is ambiguous.
"Billion" can mean either a thousand million (U.S. meaning) or a million million (which I believe is the Brit version). If you use the US meaning, .7 billion is 700 million, and you'd be saying it costs $70 US to feed a person for a year. If you use the B rit version, you're saying it costs $70,000 to feed a person for a year. I tend to think neither figure is correct. The math appears to need reworking.

Got a question for you oristar.

I've been reading about Hu Shuli, the founding editor of the magazine Caijing. Do you know of her?

Thank you both for editing, Panzade and Robert Gentel.

MontereyJack,

Why is the figure correct? The average salary of NK workers is about 2 USD (or less, just 10 yuan RMB). $70 US to feed a person for a year is acceptable (or very good!) in the country. Because $70 US is about 490 yuan RMB, with which you can buy 490 jin (or 245 kg) rice (calculated at trade price). The amount of rice can feed an NKorean for a year. Right now. even in Pyongyang, the capital of NK, with its best life condition in the country, the ration is just 200g rice per day for a person/Pyongyang citizen (that is, starvation has begun again!)


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panzade,

I googled her out so I now know her.