[2ndDivisionVet]

Park Chung Hee was the South Korean president when I was first stationed there until he was assassinated by his spy agency director about a month before I left. He was a strongman but South Korea wouldn't be where it is today without him.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Who gives a Dang!

[Lurkinanloomin]

North Korea has the resources to be a much better place.

It’s hard to imagine the DPRK changing enough to draw foreign investment without Kim giving up his total control.

[Dr. Sivana]

It is pertinent that the two success stories are both oriental. It also doesn’t hurt that Korea is pretty homogenous compared to Yuogoslavia or even Russia.

[Olog-hai]

Teng Hsiao-p’ing was no reformer. Being willing to manufacture and sell the hanging rope to “capitalists” is not reform.

[BeauBo]

The extent of the change in North Korea is still a big mystery.

They can give up their nukes and not starve, but if they want to get rich, they will have to open up and liberalize the economy.

That’s what has so many on the edge of their seats - how big will the change be?

[Balding_Eagle]

President Trump, for many reasons, has an interest in seeing North Korea become a successful country.

Successful as a country, and successful as a people.

George W bush could have cared less what happened to Yugoslavia in the other countries.

[mrsmith]

Not very insightful IMHO.

For a time NK will be a fascist economy like China.
Whether, unlike China, it moves beyond that IDK.
Capitalists will invest in secure “socialist” dictatorships as China has shown.