North and South Korea seek peace treaty - Page 2

entropy · 10-06-2007, 12:28 PM

I repeat what I've said:

The North Koreans are unable to funtion properly in a South Korean society because they have a different social paradigm.

Imagine a bunch of stone-edge people zapped into our time.

**Ironduke** · 10-06-2007, 15:35 PM

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Growth in China may be uneven, but the scale is scary. The proportion of China's population doing well is still larger than the population of E.Europe was in 1989, and it is growing. The point about China relative to the former Warsaw Pact is that the economy is not stagnant or in decline, but expanding rapidly. Eastern Eurpoe is still making the transformation from communism. Economically China is a lot further down that path, creating markets for DPRK raw materials, labor & perhaps even manufactured goods that the absorbed GDR simply didn't have.

None of the former Warsaw Pact countries have stagnant economies, and all former Warsaw Pact members that are now members of the European Union are better off economically than the Chinese.

Poland, for example, described as being one of the states facing the most problems and the longest to go to catch up, has a GDP per capita nearly twice that of China ($14,400 vs. $7800).

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West Germany's postwar performance was impressive indeed, but no more so than Japan or the ROK.

I'd agree, but in the Cold War era few or no states had economic performance at the level of West Germany, Japan, or the ROK.

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My point about having Germany as an example is that the ROK will know not to simply make the former DPRK into a part of the nation & try to modernize it as such. i think they will take a radically different approach.

Agreed... things would go much worse for the South Koreans than things went for the West Germans.

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Unfortunately I don't have the time to really follow up on this, but my bet is that the DPRK has better infrastructure than Albania & much of Africa & even somewhere like Burma, but has so devastated its human capital & let its economy fall apart that there simply isn't the money to fix any of it. Doesn't help that most of the cash there is goes to the military (much like some African nations). Average incomes, in this case, may not tell the whole story.

This illustrates North Korea's problems well:

Feanor · 10-06-2007, 20:10 PM

Lol. The problem is huge, but the point still stands. North and South are moving closer together then at any time before. While this may not seem like much you have to understand it's all relative. In comparison to how their diplomatic relations were before, this is definetly progress.

Kansas Bear · 10-06-2007, 22:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Ironduke

This illustrates North Korea's problems well:

That one bright light in North Korea is Kim Jong Il's outdoor basketball court!!

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Feanor Banished Join Date: 06-12-07 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 2,385 Country:	Lol. The problem is huge, but the point still stands. North and South are moving closer together then at any time before. While this may not seem like much you have to understand it's all relative. In comparison to how their diplomatic relations were before, this is definetly progress.

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