Re: NK Today

[Love Shack <Home@DanSources.com>]

Trish Winston wrote:

> I am confused about the notion of quasi-democracy.  What you've described is merely capitalism and industrialization.

It looks like a Democracy but the countries solutions look more Dictatorial based on my experience and conversation with
Korean friends.

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> Trish
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> On Sunday, November 04, 2001 16:34, Love Shack [SMTP:Home@DanSources.com] wrote:
> > 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
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> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > > Heavy industy -- especially one only suited to weapons production --
> > > is not a mark of a developed nation, only a paranoid one.
> > >
> > > Cookie Sewell
> > > AMPS
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