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Originally Posted by Arbitres
Korea has a difficult time keeping anarchy in check, would they really have time to make something like that? My guess: No. Especially when their economy couldn't possibly facilitate such research, as Roger said - propaganda about themselves. Nothing too big of a deal, especially when you can identify it as a lie, or a half-lie at best.
On that, I think it would be better if they actually tried to stave away their own government and switch to something more... stable, to say the least.
I'd hate to sound like a jackass, but Korea is negatively influencing the eastern world (i.e: China, Japan, and itself) by throwing this kind of madness around. Though I guess that may be their intent? Politics are rather strange, I can't understand them half the time.
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I think you got a whole lot of misconceptions, and probably you never read up much on world history. It's ok though, I've known tons of people who think my country is somewhere in China just because we have a majority Chinese population. Besides, political history is a boring comedy.
Firstly, Korea is currently divided into the North and South during the early Cold War in 1948. North is headed by Kim Il Sung back then, the current Kim Jong Il's father. After receiving lots of war materiel from China, he invaded South Korea in an attempt to unify Korea under the communist rule. The Americans had a forward occupation base in Japan at that time after WWII, so they launched a massive counterstrike. It went back and forth for some time until they stopped at the 38th Parallel (latitude) in 1950 if I am not wrong.
Secondly, South Korea is more developed than North Korea due to free market reforms. Basically it is Economics behind the saying "
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for life." : USSR and China kept pumping money into NK as part of the communist collectivism policy, while South Korea was taught how to financially expand themselves with opportunities given by US.
Thirdly, the economically stagnated North Korea had to blackout their country from the outside world in order to maintain social stability, and the anti-US press statements are simply a way of demonising their better-off, US aided Southern counterpart to make themselves feel better. The reason why that regime didn't collapse is because China is propping up their economy so as to maintain a buffer state in the East Asia region against US, who had Japan and SK on their side.
That's pretty much the summary. Read the rest on Wikipedia. Don't be lazy!
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I think they disagree with you.
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It doesn't matter what brand of politics a country practice, be it a democracy, autocracy, anarchy or whatever. As long as the people are truly happy and efforts are geared towards eradicating poverty and promoting meritocracy (not too heavily in the academic aspect though), it's a good start.
I think it would be best that Thailand undergoes a temporary anarchy under King Bhumibol, for let's say, 5-10 years and even out the divide between the rich and poor. The problem with the country right now is that the income disparity and self-serving corrupt politicians are taking the place apart, and given how closely linked the economies of SEA are, regional instability can result from the country's political collapse.