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

he was the dad or grandfather to the girl who got impeached

recently

the one tied to the weird ass cult.

yeah i heard about that

so even in worse korea there was this familia lineage.

goddamn

why does china seem to be so flippant towards the dprk? russia isn't even socialist anymore and they're still on rather good terms with the north

but revisionist china seems to always criticize and condemn the north, mainly in their nuclear tests

Its something commented about a lot. North Korea also mentioned this on how Russia and Putin seem to be cozier to them which is strange.

Best way to describe it is "real politik"

China still wants a North Korea since they don't want to share a border with South Korea which is to them and rightfully show a U.S colony.

They still remember how MacArthur wanted to use nukes on them and overthrow the PRC and install Sheik back in

However they also want to be on good terms on the international stage.

So they have to keep this balancing act to condemn North Korea to seem good. It works sometimes too.

This was a bit ago and have since graduated but remember one class we were talking about current events and North Korea was doing more tests and nukes. And China stepped up to condemn them.

Lot of liberals started praising China as being the sensible nation who stood up and was able to at least tame the North to a degree.

I don't think China would ever YEET North Korea or their alliance. But they will shit talk it sometimes if they feel like it may net them some prestige and cookie points.

but the west does not like china, regardless of their stance on north korea

i don't know why they'd even bother imo

For trade they do like them, and in the cases of some people like the above it at least gives them some prestige.

I would be curious if Mao was in charge what his stance would be.