Some of the Chinese "cities" that border NK have a ghetto look to them, as well. NK is pretty typical of a communist system. China is just now starting to get it's rural (i.e. nine-tenths of the country) areas pulled out of the same kind of feudal era.
It'll be strange if NK ever gets overrun. South Korea will have that place turned completely around within a generation. They (the Koreans) are hardcore industrious like that. Getting all those landmines out of the DMZ is going to take one helacious project, though. If if you just poured some 100m long steel roller and rolled it over the mines, it'll get blown to hell.
Very interesting find, Avon.
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