North Korean Diamond Ts????

Here is a tantalizing tidbit… Apparently after WWII, North Korea couldn’t get permission or didn’t have the capital to import heavy equipment such as Russian tractors and specifically, American Diamond T trucks – so they simply disassembled them and copied them without license. If this is true, it may mean that there are still counterfeit Diamond T trucks out there (at least in Korea). Now THAT would be a conversation piece. Got the tidbit from the book below….

North Korea Under Communism: Report of an Envoy to Paradise
by Erik Cornell

Title North Korea Under Communism
Author(s) Erik Cornell
Publisher Routledge (UK)
Publication Date September 1, 2002
Subject History / General History
Format Paperback
Pages 256
Dimensions 6.80 x 8.64 x 0.65 in
ISBN 0700716971