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What’s behind North Korea’s shock change of policy towards the South?
(www.aljazeera.com)
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The fall of the Soviet Union took the DPRK's (and many of the AES's) biggest trading partner off the table. Lead to famine and all sorts of resource issues. If I remember correctly, DPRK was actually better off than the South for a while there.
Yeah, but I was under the assumption that period is completely over
I don't think they ever really got back to where they were, but trade with China had them on the right track. Then covid hit.
Gotcha, that's a huge shame