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Things are worse in North Korea. They have a military that outnumbers ours, inside their small ass country. Too high of a percentage of their population are full time soldiers, and any college economics major can tell you how expensive on the economy a large military is. While it has good parts of keeping the economy flowing and a steady garanteed job placement if too large it will bleed the country white.
Now take into account N. Korea is closer to a feudal system than our flowing economy. So their pay doesnt cause the economy to grow exponencially (gov. x4 influence), but simply saps the income caused by the agriculture.
China is trying to build a large economy from the top down which doesnt tend to work. They build billion-dollar business centers for McDonalds/etc, but they stand empty because there's no proverbial floor in the mansions. There's no support or well trained people to work in those areas, let alone enough people with enough spare cash to buy processed foods instead of cooking it themselves.
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