> That’s not obvious. For starters South Korea was a brutal and oppressive dictatorship during and after the war (not that much better than NK). So what? So we

> That’s not obvious. For starters South Korea was a brutal and oppressive dictatorship during and after the war (not that much better than NK). So what? So were most European countries before they became democracies. Name a successful democracy that didn’t go through such a phase to consolidate the state?