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North Korea shows what a difference leadership makes. On the one hand one pushed education and industrialization on the other hand cult of personality and some

• throwaway0a5e 5y ago
  NK did pretty ok for awhile as long as they had the USSR as their sugar daddy. And SK was a dump ruled by a dictator for many decades as well. Funny how the roles reversed.
• BoorishBears 5y ago
  That's nonsense. It's like saying because a tourniquet stopped you from bleeding to death after someone went around cutting people's hands off, the problem isn't that your hand got cut off, the problem is you didn't get a tourniquet in time. - If anything NK vs SK just shows how ridiculously vulnerable these colonies were and exactly how little internal factors mattered. Both were simply pawns of the cold war. SK was on a downwards trajectory but saved by an export economy propped up by billions of US dollars and heavy US military support in amounts far exceeding other countries because SK was considered an important front of the Cold War. NK went from arguably doing better than SK in the 70s and ended up losing 25% of their economic output as the USSR collapsed... How would someone seriously hold these two nations up as proof that success or failure after your country has been put through a meat grinder and chopped up into new pieces, it's on internal factors to see if you'll make it in the long term?