Vampire [any]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoWhat’s behind North Korea’s shock change of policy towards the South?www.aljazeera.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down10
arrow-up144arrow-down1external-linkWhat’s behind North Korea’s shock change of policy towards the South?www.aljazeera.comVampire [any]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squareJoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·9 months agoThe 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.
minus-squareLesbianLiberty [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 months agoYeah, but I was under the assumption that period is completely over
minus-squareJoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·9 months agoI 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.
minus-squareLesbianLiberty [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoGotcha, that’s a huge shame
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