(April 5, 2017 at 7:13 pm)Crunchy Wrote: Korea was in the hands of the Japanese and their loss in WW2 is what caused the division between North and South Korea. The best thing that could have happened was for the entire nation to be handed over to the west. Where would you rather live today, North or South Korea?
South Korea is an independent and successful nation because of the opportunity for democracy afforded to it by the west after the war. An opportunity they have done much with to their credit. North Korea is a disaster because the insane communist Kim Ill-Sung and his cult of personality received support from the communists who would rather see a nut case in charge than have open democracy.
The south is not independent, it counts on the U.S for its own defense against the north; if we were to talk in the context of the current story, the south would just perish behind a cloud of atomic bombardment fired from the north.
The south has LG because of capitalism. It is a system allowing companies to spend and expand, not like Communism that creates and allows dictators to have all wealth and all manufacturing to themselves.
Whenever a missile is fired from the north, the south's allies jump to the scene. It's a pattern: Kim tries so pathetically and so hard to convince us that he's crazy. The west then responds with a speech, more economical penalties. Even if a war broke out, the context of a lie cannot be skipped, since soldiers on both sides are drugged with local propaganda: Northern, Western, Southern or Eastern.
This is exactly what a perfect business environment is: a round table where different fatcats sit, and fight with cellphones. The victims are civilians and soldiers who were led through propaganda to fight the fight for the fat cat, drop bombs for the fat cat, does it all for the fat cat.
On the round table south and north mean nothing. Even the Mongols and the Crusades created stable and wealthy economies to some time, the excuse of every dictator is the "gold sack" thrown to the bellydancer. But it's easy to see the sword chopping heads on the other hand.
WW2 didn't even complete 100 years span. Cats always fight. And we get to suffer.