South Korea is an unprecedented success story, a struggling country gone good. It has gone from an authoritarian nation of poor farmers to a democratic hub that doubles as one of the world’s technological and financial superpowers. On the other hand, North Korea is the center of human rights violations, corruption, and malice in the modern world. North Korea has a dysfunctional economy and a political system that places a higher value on military spending then the welfare and survival of the population. So, one of the most impressive examples of a nation emerging from the absolute destruction of war is paired with a prototypical rogue state in which citizens endure famine and even freeze to death in their apartments. Where did it all go
South Korea is an unprecedented success story, a struggling country gone good. It has gone from an authoritarian nation of poor farmers to a democratic hub that doubles as one of the world’s technological and financial superpowers. On the other hand, North Korea is the center of human rights violations, corruption, and malice in the modern world. North Korea has a dysfunctional economy and a political system that places a higher value on military spending then the welfare and survival of the population. So, one of the most impressive examples of a nation emerging from the absolute destruction of war is paired with a prototypical rogue state in which citizens endure famine and even freeze to death in their apartments. Where did it all go