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Korea? Seriously? If there is a clearer example of the benefits of the U.S. world role after 1945, I can't come up with it.
by twoodfin 14y ago
Korea? Seriously? If there is a clearer example of the benefits of the U.S. world role after 1945, I can't come up with it.
- Mordor 14y agoMass starvation and huge prison camps, yeah I bet they're overjoyed with their US 'benefits'.
- twoodfin 14y agoI don't think you have a clear understanding of just which competing hegemonies ended up influencing which parts of Korea...
- mathieuh 14y agoWell, in 1980 Pyongyang was one of the most efficient cities in SE Asia while according to US officials Seoul was a heaving mess of "sweatshops to make Dante or Engels faint", and in 1948 ~100,000 Koreans sympathetic to the North were rounded up and put in prisons (~30,000) or concentration camps (~70,000).
- twoodfin 14y agoLinks would help your case but seriously: You'd invest in 1980 Pyongyang rather than Seoul? You are a crazy person, even without the benefit of hindsight.
- thecoffman 14y agoI'm assuming he means South Korea.