Let's say that for whatever reason the North manages to secure the entire peninsula during the 1950s. What would a single Korean communist dictatorship look like by 2009?
Bad. VERY bad.
If Kim Jong Evil is in charge; very ugly.
Hell. *filler*
Ronery.Let's say that for whatever reason the North manages to secure the entire peninsula during the 1950s. What would a single Korean communist dictatorship look like by 2009? How would it evolve, if at all?
Well, that about sums it up.
No it doesn't. The reason North Korea is hell today is much a result of the pressures from political, military and economic isolation, and the trauma of a divided country. Most likely it would be more like Cuba, if unified. There would be much less reason to turn inwards, to develop a overreaching military-industrial complex, to strentghen central power in face of the southern "threat". Instead North Korea would probable have gone Cubas way, reacting to the fall of the Soviet Union (= economic isolation) with some opening to the capitalist world-market, slashing military spending, etc.
No it doesn't. The reason North Korea is hell today is much a result of the pressures from political, military and economic isolation, and the trauma of a divided country. Most likely it would be more like Cuba, if unified. There would be much less reason to turn inwards, to develop a overreaching military-industrial complex, to strentghen central power in face of the southern "threat". Instead North Korea would probable have gone Cubas way, reacting to the fall of the Soviet Union (= economic isolation) with some opening to the capitalist world-market, slashing military spending, etc.
I think that the DPRK would be inclined to liberalize a la China. It might still be hellish, but methinks it would be more like Vietnam.