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When the Berlin wall fell - the economic collapse of Eastern Europe was total for a decade. Leave vacuum at the top - and ordinary North Koreans will be even wo
by venomsnake 11y ago
When the Berlin wall fell - the economic collapse of Eastern Europe was total for a decade. Leave vacuum at the top - and ordinary North Koreans will be even worse. Look at the paradise that is Iraq.
The only semi-successful country that avoided total pain was East Germany - and it was because of the unification.
- maxxxxx 11y agoThe cost of the German reunification was enormous. And that was for a country that was probably one of the best economies of the communist states. I can't imagine what the cost and effort would be to keep North Korea from collapsing.
- avar 11y ago> Look at the paradise that is Iraq. Iraq was held together by a strongman of one of two secterian factions on the country, who when the country collapsed went right back to killing each other. I don't think any such analogous situation exists in North Korea, it would be much more like East Germany, the economy would be horrible for decades, but I doubt it would come to perpetual civil war like Iraq.