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Originally Posted by GirlySports
South Korea struggled in the 1970s, student demonstrations, political coup attempts, ruthless dictator in Park-Chung-Hee for 18 years until he was assasinated in 1979.
The Captain is right, everything South Korea did was for the US. Even their soliders were paid by the US. It wasn't until the 1980s that they found their own way.
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Park-Chung-Hee was piece of work in his own right, he was as controlling and authoratarian as it gets, but he also got the economy rolling in South Korea, he also gets a lot of credit for pushing through some very unpopular trade agreements with the Japanese which utterly springboarded South Korea.
Funnily enough he was killed by the head of his own CIA which mirrors the conspiracy theorists beliefs about Kennedy and the CIA.
Meanwhile in the North, Kim Il-Sung was originally way more in the camp of Stalin which could have lead to a similar industrial improvement but his Korean War adventures actually pissed off Stalin eventually caused a severe cooling of USSR North Korean relations and allowed China to step into the vacuum and assume de-facto control over North Korea's intelligence agencies and members of the ruling council.