This, alot of the mixing was in result to Germans dying in droves under Soviet POW camps and the western POW's refusing to go back east and making a new life in West Germany instead
Kim Il Sung had purged pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese elements within the DPRK in the 50s after Khrushchev disavowed Stalinism and to prevent the Yan'an Faction from gaining more ground, and since then, strove to minimise its reliance on foreign nations. On the otherhand, the USSR had a far greater role in the GDR's state structure and in return, the GDR relied on it for its existence.
Because North Korea succeeded in maintaining their government in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's fall, barely.
All communist parties across the world save for China received some kind of bolstering from the Soviet Union, subsidizing governments to spend much more than they were capable of independently to develop their country and government. North Korea in the 1970's was more developed than South Korea due to the Soviet subsidies coming in in the form of food, resources, and cash.
After 1991, North Korea had its lifeline cut along with every other communist government. After that, only China (which didn't receive any Soviet support after the Sino-Soviet split), Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, and North Korea managed to stay solvent in the aftermath of the USSR's fall, but the fall hurt North Korea the most out of all those who survived, with widespread famine plaguing the country after Soviet grain subsidies ceased.
The Kim family has one singular goal at this point, stay in power at all costs. They've consolidated and cemented their position at the center of government and are now unchallenged in their authority, but at the cost of the nation just barely standing due to an ally in China giving just enough to keep North Korea alive. Successfully constructing nuclear weapons also gives North Korea security against a Southern invasion by ensuring any outside attempts to invade the North will be too costly to justify a unification by force.
the smartest thing Kim's did is secure the power among a family
while North Korea is by no means a monarchy, this element of it is what made it so stable
No it's not. Monarchy is not just "has a monarch". It's a system to which aristocracy is an essential element, and North Korea lacks aristocracy. Aristocracy only forms in society with genuine respect for a family unit and heritage which is something that's not present in NK. They superficially "support" the family unit through propaganda and divorce process being impossible unless the marriage is opposed to the state by existing (if the person is married to someone deemed counter-revolutionary basically). And here where the issue lies. The elites in NK are not built on familial nature, and also do not have protection for being completely wiped out by the Kim family. Aristocracy even in absolutism is a force that balances out the monarch somewhat, but in Korea it does not. The Kim family respects no one but their own. The elites are scattered and individualistic. It is very dangerous to get your entire family involved in politics, because the chance of them all getting killed for the mistake of one is much higher.
>north ruled by insane dictator who views the entire northern population as his personal property >the north's economy never recovered from the Korean War and pretty much everything outside the capital is medieval-tier poverty >China actively props up the North as an independent state to have a buffer between them and US-occupied Korea >South Korea is not interested in suddenly having millions of malnourished, uneducated citizens to be responsible for + a land border with China that will totally change their country's diplomatic standing
These reasons, mostly.
One of them officially see's one Korea, the other does not. I lived there for about a year. The cafes for French cakes and coffee are better in South Korea than Paris.
Why ESL fail to use grammar?
I simply made a typo, dude.
It's not time yet.
The USSR collapsed so East was integrated in the West. Fortunately for NO they had China to step in and act as their patron instead of the USSR.
But the East united with the west two years before the Soviet collapse.
Chinks and norks haven’t produced a Gorbachev leader figure ready to sucky sucky western penis 4 5 Bucky yet
Because North Korea (unlike East Germany) has been successful at protecting their population from Western propaganda.
East Germany is oriental Turko-Slavic Uralian. They are completely owned and belong to Astrakhan, Samara and Permia
This, alot of the mixing was in result to Germans dying in droves under Soviet POW camps and the western POW's refusing to go back east and making a new life in West Germany instead
here come the juchetroons
God is with North Korea
Kim Il Sung had purged pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese elements within the DPRK in the 50s after Khrushchev disavowed Stalinism and to prevent the Yan'an Faction from gaining more ground, and since then, strove to minimise its reliance on foreign nations. On the otherhand, the USSR had a far greater role in the GDR's state structure and in return, the GDR relied on it for its existence.
uniting is stupid. There will always be differences, just change the form of government.
>There will always be differences
Like?
Because North Korea succeeded in maintaining their government in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's fall, barely.
All communist parties across the world save for China received some kind of bolstering from the Soviet Union, subsidizing governments to spend much more than they were capable of independently to develop their country and government. North Korea in the 1970's was more developed than South Korea due to the Soviet subsidies coming in in the form of food, resources, and cash.
After 1991, North Korea had its lifeline cut along with every other communist government. After that, only China (which didn't receive any Soviet support after the Sino-Soviet split), Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, and North Korea managed to stay solvent in the aftermath of the USSR's fall, but the fall hurt North Korea the most out of all those who survived, with widespread famine plaguing the country after Soviet grain subsidies ceased.
The Kim family has one singular goal at this point, stay in power at all costs. They've consolidated and cemented their position at the center of government and are now unchallenged in their authority, but at the cost of the nation just barely standing due to an ally in China giving just enough to keep North Korea alive. Successfully constructing nuclear weapons also gives North Korea security against a Southern invasion by ensuring any outside attempts to invade the North will be too costly to justify a unification by force.
the smartest thing Kim's did is secure the power among a family
while North Korea is by no means a monarchy, this element of it is what made it so stable
>while North Korea is by no means a monarchy
What do you mean? It's the definition of a monarchy. It's one of the few true monarchies left.
No it's not. Monarchy is not just "has a monarch". It's a system to which aristocracy is an essential element, and North Korea lacks aristocracy. Aristocracy only forms in society with genuine respect for a family unit and heritage which is something that's not present in NK. They superficially "support" the family unit through propaganda and divorce process being impossible unless the marriage is opposed to the state by existing (if the person is married to someone deemed counter-revolutionary basically). And here where the issue lies. The elites in NK are not built on familial nature, and also do not have protection for being completely wiped out by the Kim family. Aristocracy even in absolutism is a force that balances out the monarch somewhat, but in Korea it does not. The Kim family respects no one but their own. The elites are scattered and individualistic. It is very dangerous to get your entire family involved in politics, because the chance of them all getting killed for the mistake of one is much higher.
There's still time
>north ruled by insane dictator who views the entire northern population as his personal property
>the north's economy never recovered from the Korean War and pretty much everything outside the capital is medieval-tier poverty
>China actively props up the North as an independent state to have a buffer between them and US-occupied Korea
>South Korea is not interested in suddenly having millions of malnourished, uneducated citizens to be responsible for + a land border with China that will totally change their country's diplomatic standing
These reasons, mostly.
One of them officially see's one Korea, the other does not. I lived there for about a year. The cafes for French cakes and coffee are better in South Korea than Paris.
North Korea wasn't retarded and didn't pick a side in the sino-soviet split so they had China to fall back on.