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> but American involvement there is the only reason why South Korea exists and we don’t have one giant North Korea. True, but nobody knows how a unified commun
by sofixa 4y ago
> but American involvement there is the only reason why South Korea exists and we don’t have one giant North Korea.
True, but nobody knows how a unified communist Korea would have turned out. Without a direct threat at their border and an easy bad gut to point the finger at, they might have progressively opened up à la Vietnam (the closest comparison we have).
- rougka 4y agoCould be, although Vietnam was fundamentally different than North Korea. Even if you compare Korea to Vietnam, it is highly unlikely the economic situation had been similar to South Korea. Anyway this is all alternate history, just as the discussions in GP. How could we say something is a failure when we have no real way of understanding its effects