No more Japanese cars for us! Take THAT, Japan. We'll show you.
North Korea has revived a campaign to ban Japanese cars from its roads, apparently reflecting strained relations between the two nations, a South Korean welfare group said Monday.
The drive was launched in 2007 but later suspended because about 70 percent of cars in the communist country are Japanese, said Good Friends, which works in North Korea.
The group said Pyongyang revived the campaign in June, instructing provincial prosecutors to check for Japanese vehicles in each factory and public enterprise and to report their findings.
The new campaign calls for the elimination of Japanese vehicles by October 8, 2011, with the exception of heavy-duty trucks, it said.
Of course NK's automobile market is vast and no doubt Japan will be thrown into economic turmoil if they were to lose this lucrative market. Sheesh, there are all of 30,000 automobiles in North Korean, a country of 23 million. That's a lot of ride-sharing.
