Just posted this on another thread:
What I am bothered by is modern Russia’s refusal to take historical responsibility for North Korea in the first place, even while resuscitating Soviet modes of geo-politicking.
North Korea was called by the “Jerusalem of the East” by the American missionaries who populated it prior to the Soviets turning it into an atheist Gulag hell-hole.
Yet look at SOUTH Korea, where Americans stay to this day: tiny, half of a nation yet with an economy more alive and active than even Russia’s.
The disparity between the two Koreas is very telling.