North Korea and ‘The Commons’: Blank slate for a new kind of nation?

Asia Times ^ | October 24, 2018 | Emanuel Pastreich

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Could an emergent North Korea provide the world with a new, from-scratch benchmark of sustainable, collaborative economic and social development? With geopolitical change and emerging technologies, the idea of a national “commons” now looks increasingly feasible.

Relations between North and South Korea are changing so rapidly, the pressing question is no longer what the next step in this process of reconciliation will be, but rather where the peninsula is heading in the political, economic and cultural senses.

A door is opening for the institutional transformation of the “Hermit Kingdom” with new concepts and technologies. The implementation of new approaches to government and the building of new infrastructure could make North Korea an inspiring experiment that other nations can model.

However, amid promising developments on the Korean Peninsula, media report that multinationals are planning to establish an extractive economy that will generate quick wealth from the exploitation of North Korea’s rich mineral resources and cheap labor....

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Discuss.

[treetopsandroofs]

Sounds like popie Frankie will be discussing “climate deniers” with Rocket Man, and them come talk down to America again.

[webheart]

East Germany and West Germany. Case closed. Regardless of what comes of it or how it turns out, the people of North Korea will be better off and for that Donald Trump will be historically recognized for hundreds of years.

[hinckley buzzard]

Sort of standard collectivist utopian fantasy about what somebody else’s country “could do” if they just use the writer’s bright ideas.

[Wuli]

“Could an emergent North Korea provide the world with a new, from-scratch benchmark of sustainable, collaborative economic and social development? With geopolitical change and emerging technologies, the idea of a national “commons” now looks increasingly feasible. “

Intellectual garbage filled with ignorance with the stench of more nonsense than the worst political cesspool anyone can imagine.