Long Overdue?

BEIJING, Oct 7 (Reuters) - North Korea, which has a robust ballistic missile programme and claims to have developed nuclear arms, began production on Friday of the country's first home-built bicycles, China's Xinhua news agency said.
This is quite possibly, the most pathetic North Korea stories I have ever read... And I've read a few. Considering how much of the population needs a bike to get around, one would expect the North Koreans would make a bike or two for themselves. I mean, 7 million? Fuck.

With annual production of up to 300,000 "Peony Peak" bikes a year, the Chinese-invested plant will cut reliance on the second-hand imports from neighbours Japan and China which have supplied the largely isolated socialist nation until now, the report said.
Energy-starved North Korea needs up to 7 million bicycles, the article quoted a company source saying. The joint-venture firm has more than 50 models including one that it said would become the new workhorse of the postal service.
Chinese investors own a 51 percent stake in the $650,000 Pyongyang factory, with North Korea holding the rest.













Is there nothing North Korea can accomplish without their "Dark Red Commie Lords" having a say in it?