Contrast North and South Korea
South Korea has a modern, advanced capitalist economy heavily dependent on relationships with the U.S. and Japan. It has fewer non-agricultural resources than the North.
North Korea is a rigid, tightly controlled communist state. It is a militaristic country, with a much smaller economy than South Korea. It controls most of the Korean peninsula's non-agricultural resources and has experienced severe famines. Citizens are cut-off from the world.
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