# \[DailyNK\] Motorcycles and Notebook Computers

**URL:** <https://forum.wereldwijzer.nl/t/dailynk-motorcycles-and-notebook-computers/89690>\
**Category:** Noord-Korea in het nieuws\
**Created:** [25 mei 2011 om 22:12 UTC](https://forum.wereldwijzer.nl/t/dailynk-motorcycles-and-notebook-computers/89690 "2011-05-25T22:12:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [25 mei 2011 om 22:12 UTC](https://forum.wereldwijzer.nl/t/dailynk-motorcycles-and-notebook-computers/89690/1 "2011-05-25T22:12:46Z")

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> In today’s North Korea, where wealth inequality is growing more and more extreme, what is a symbol of upper class income status? Just a few years ago, the answer was a branded South Korean rice cooker, the ‘Cuckoo’. So much so, indeed, that the brand name has totally usurped the dictionary description, ‘pressurized electric rice cooker’, altogether.
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> However, according to a new interview with a cadre from an enterprise in Chongjin published in the new, June edition of NK Vision, the most potent recent symbols of a wealthy family are motorcycles, notebook computers and military dogs!
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> “Affluent households need dogs to deter thieves, and a military dog can be raised for around seven years then it leaves meat to the house,” he explained.

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