I’d honestly feel better to hear someone calling us dog eating chingchong than this tankie shit. At least they’re open about being racist and there’s some truth to it.
I’d honestly feel better to hear someone calling us dog eating chingchong than this tankie shit. At least they’re open about being racist and there’s some truth to it.
The only time when the North had better quality of life than the South was when they were being massively subsidized by the USSR. When the Soviet economy collapsed and the foreign income stopped, North Korea collapsed too. It was never a functional economy on its own merits.
The only reason western Europe shaped up so well in the post-war era was because the United States massively subsidized it. So what?
After the US aid ended, western Europe stood on its own. North Korea has only ever been a puppet state, first of the USSR and then the PRC.
No, it didn’t. It had access to international trade.
Right, because they weren’t wacko authoritarian isolationists. Choosing to participate in international relationships is a thing that mature, stable governments do.
Attacking your neighbors for self-enrichment is a thing that tyrannical dictators do. Attacking your own people to increase your political power is a thing that nutjob authoritarians do.