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In a world where the Un won the Korean War fairly quickly (so less time for the North to get bombed) and the whole peninsula is united under a capitalist and pro-western regime, how well off would the initially underdeveloped South (which American planners thought would only be suited to agriculture and light industry) vis a vis a relatively undamaged North open to capitalist development? Would the North become better off in relative terms?