With a good military and weapons (and cool reveal video) that the US is scared of, why isn’t North Korea unlike South Korea functioning as a normal society?
Edit: Thank you everyone for telling me what’s on the other side of the “Great Wall” put there by the MSM. If any got offended by this post, I deeply apologize to you, and it will never happen again.
There was a point in time in which North Korea was on track to economically outpace South Korea. Here, some organization called the Wilson Center, which i assume is just another capitalist idea production factory, acknowledges this but of course, caveats it on the aid that NK received from China, as if the SK capitalist economy wasn’t built upon the crushing of proletarian uprising through massacres, political disenfranchisement, and western powers working with SK compradors to create an economy to rival the NK example of socialism.
As the years went on, sanctions were imposed on NK, and ultimately, the Soviet Union collapsing almost completely isolated NK from the rest of the world economically, socially and politically.
Any western understanding of NK needs to be on the basis that the US killed 1/5th of the people of Korea in the war (and countless more through sanctions). 1/5 of the US population is 66 million people. 66 million people with dreams, hopes, fears, and aspirations. With that in mind, why would NK operate from a position of trust with the US?
The self reliance the Nk was forced to adopt is just ruthlessly flipped by western outlets to somehow prove it’s inherent evilness.