Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead.

Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Logical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tbf South Korea has plenty of economic, demographic, and social problems as well. Still miles better than North, but saying that only the North doesn’t work is not really accurate.

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  • Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    of course south korea has problems as well, but I think one can objectively state that the north doesn’t work, no matter which metric you choose to measure its “success” with

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A country competing with Japan for the highest suicide rate cant be described as working for a lot of its inhabitants.

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      • Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        yeah it’s better to live in north korea were you starve to death before you get a chance to commit suicide

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  North Korea doesn’t even claim to be communist. Are you mixing them up with China?

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  • Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    north korea also claims to be democratic, that doesn’t mean it’s true

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s just really weird that you came up with a reason to spout your pet bogeyman when it wasn’t even relevant.

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      • Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        true

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• bss03@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  South Korea is OVER so… some problems there, too.

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