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Mass starvation and huge prison camps, yeah I bet they're overjoyed with their US 'benefits'.



I don't think you have a clear understanding of just which competing hegemonies ended up influencing which parts of Korea...


Well, 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).


Links 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.


I'm assuming he means South Korea.




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