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I do not disagree with your assessment ...
However,. I guess we should do a some comparing and can take into account the USA's weapons production industry as also being paranoid. Especially since it accounts for most of our capital exports overseas. Other then food I do not know what the USA exports to other countries. Seems Japans and Germanys recovery came from one fact that they did not have to fund an expensive military. Giving them an opportunity to develop a strong commercial economy. South Koreans IMO still live in a quasi-Democracy. The average citizen is well off compared to their relatives in the north. But interestingly the south treats its citizens much in the same way the North does. Yes the South has a greatly superior cash flow economic mechanisms which keep the populace out of desperate poverty. As far as attitudes are concerned they treat their citizens much the same. One just has more money. Somehow the spots do not change, some are just larger. Dan Fahey
AMPSOne@aol.com wrote: Huh? This sounds more like the "Workers' Paradise" view of socialist utopia than reality. Both countries were pretty much a wreck after the war, but to all accounts the South recovered better and faster than the North ever did. |