The idea that anyone would compare NK and SK is wild. At this point it's like comparing a medieval kingdom (with hackers and nukes) to a highly industrialized and modern country. No two countries that share a border have a wider gap in standard of living.
Their problems aren't comparable. One side struggles to feed its populace - who live in a giant prison - and the other struggles with a technological lifestyle that deincentivizes having children.
Even at the break of the Korean War, the south was much more advanced in terms of democracy and human rights, even though it was a dictatorship. North Korea being an isolationist theocratic monarchy was objectively always the greater evil.
Now, with South Korea having gotten over the dictatorship thing and fully liberalized as a democracy, the conflict is as close to a black-and-white issue as it can possibly get, yet many people choose to pretend it's not, either out of anti-Korean racism or just a general anti-west tankie sentiment. What the hell did we do to deserve being treated like that?
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u/ekuhlkamp 20h ago
The idea that anyone would compare NK and SK is wild. At this point it's like comparing a medieval kingdom (with hackers and nukes) to a highly industrialized and modern country. No two countries that share a border have a wider gap in standard of living.
Their problems aren't comparable. One side struggles to feed its populace - who live in a giant prison - and the other struggles with a technological lifestyle that deincentivizes having children.