Theories Of South Korea

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South Korea is the example of how a war ridden country from World War II aftermath has flourished economically over the past 60+ years. The conflict of 1953 on the Korean peninsula had the ideologies divided with communism prevailing over their northern territories. Military rule was inevitable in the whole Korean region due to friction between the neighbors. South Korea has benefitted from their alliance with U.S as they continued to be allies, Marcus Noland identifies, in lieu of their support to Washington, Seoul’s authoritarian rule over South Korea opened ways for new technology to arrive and trade relations to prosper. Japan and China have always been the giants of the region and still are but South Koreans benefitted greatly for global capitalism due to their relations with U.S and the presence of U.S inside South Korea helped them to develop and implement U.S ideology.
Marcus identifies the factors that prevented North Korea to have a very different ideology towards U.S favourite South Korea which resulted in a cold war and progressed towards constant threats for the stabili...

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