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I wouldn't call North Korea purposefully underdeveloped. It just refuses to accept foreign investment like every other country on the face of the planet. It's m

I wouldn't call North Korea purposefully underdeveloped. It just refuses to accept foreign investment like every other country on the face of the planet. It's modernizing, albeit slowly and on its own terms.

biofox 10y ago
The trade embargoes haven't help. If we'd been more active in engaging North Korea on friendly terms, maybe they would have developed along a similar route as China. It seems like we're trying to squeeze them till they collapse, and North Korea are understandably doing all they can to be self-sufficient and not appear weak and desperate.
- pavs 10y ago
  The problem is NK is nothing like China. NK leadership is nothing like China, opening them up would only make them militarily more dangerous to deal with. But I agree with you that there needs to be and end to this, but I have no idea how.
jonknee 10y ago
> It's modernizing, albeit slowly and on its own terms. On the terms of its dictatorship. Not on the terms of the people.
- vkou 10y ago
  South Korea also modernized on the terms of its dictatorship. It did so very quickly, though. Rate of modernization has little to do with the form of government.