I think Un really has best intentions and is trying to reason with the U.S

to see if they can work something out to leave them alone.

well, wouldn't that be better achieved by simply pursuing reunification with the south? granted, the two vastly different ideologies is another can of worms on its own

Trump certainly is egotistical and dumb enough he could fall for something like that.

Yes that is the issue that is the elephant in the room.

hasnt trump also backpedaled on talks with kim before

The South is INCREDIBLY capitalistic.

On tinfoil hat levels some gone as far as to say its a USA corporate puppet, where rich and elites use it to study trends and test them

before moving onto other areas.

The North does want unification but it would be unlikely they would unite with a capitalist government.

south is basically a dystopia at this point

moreso than the media's portrayal of the north

need to get my link on South Korean salt mines.

Those hardly get talked about.

From presidential cult leaders, to arresting teen girls over gay animu porn, to salt mines.

isn't south korea full of slums and 3rd world-tier ghettos and shanty towns outside of seoul and the major cities

Yes, they only show seoul mostly which is like an attempted copy of Tokyo

with all the glamour and animu and shit

but the government and society is highly repressive

anon just quoted the wiki article but it is true and why I don't recognize the South.

From the start a U.S junta was put in charge and its been closely watched via the USA.

I would go as far as to call it a colony.

The DPRK has legitimacy from this pre cursor government and organization that tried to set up a socialist state.

how did the south manage to outclass the north economically? it was inferior to the north for a long time

was it just a perk of having america as their sugar daddy?

Several factors, one of them was the USA as their sugar daddy, others was economic snactions against North Korea, then the fall of the USSR.

North Korean used to be more open, though we have their idea of a hermit kingdom.

It was around late 80s early 90s they started to close off.

North Korea still sustains itself better then African nations that do get welfare as one /pol/lack pointed out.

damn

You can sorta see this with like the Trump presidential debates

where he said "lmao lets give them nukes"

to the south

its the general policy of the USA to just throw money at their projects.

Its a similar story for unrelated nations like Israel.

projects as in the military

Which a lot of people have pointed out how it survives so well to basically usa welfare.

infrastructure and healthcare is for communists

we need more tanks and planes

South Korea was also under a right wing military dictatorship for a bit under Park. park chung hee