Sorry but wrong. N Korea was better off economically in 1950 -70s, mainly because of the infrastructure Japan had set up with the goal of using that region as

Sorry but wrong. N Korea was better off economically in 1950 -70s, mainly because of the infrastructure Japan had set up with the goal of using that region as a staging ground for invading Manchuria/China. S Korea has better infra and education than N Korea.