Which country is better, North Korea or Myanmar (Burma)?

Question

which is more industralized?

Answer 1

Burma is better but North Korea is more industrialised.

As a decrepit communist state North Korea has retained a heavy industrial capability- particularly in agriculture, construction, defence, mining and infrastructure. However the state has an official policy of distrust- categorising people as loyal, wavering or hostile.

To have a decent life a loyal rating (one fifth of population) and preferably Party membership (1.5 million out of 22 million) are important- with the former you can get work in industry or transport, with the latter in administration, officialdom or police. Wavering equals a life in agriculture, mining or labour- where most people are hungry and poor. Hostile equals persecution, and even time in gulags.

Burma has a modest defence industry, and little else. Entire segments of the population are denied existence, but the country is better- largely as the repression is less efficient and pervasive and power is held by the whole army and not just a family.

Burma has much better resources including decent farm productivity, forestry, fish, gems and tourism.

North Korea is a rocky peninsula with poor soils, and even its good mineral deposits are easily out-competed by the goliaths of China and Russia.

Answer 2

Believe it or not, North Korea is one of the most industrialised countries in the world. It went through a program of building factories from the 1960s, just so it would look good on propaganda posters. To a North Korean peasant, factories look like the height of civilisation.

The problem for North Korea is:

* it has no innovation to make anything useful
* it has no power that factories can use
* it has no market to sell stuff to anyway

To put it in perspective, in 2000 South Korea imported 894 million barrels of crude oil. The north imported only 2.9 million barrels.

So, North Korea isn't doing particuarly crash hot in secondary industry. In farming, well, three million North Koreans died a decade ago because of famine. I don't even want to think what their service industry is like.

Lets just say North Korea is the most advanced country in the world when it comes to warehousing space.

Answer 3

I hope Both country hav the same economic conditions.... But North Korea may be better than Myanmar (burma). coz Myanmar gov is can not well controll for their economy problem.

Answer 4

Burma is. I think it was Ronald Reagan who said: It's better to live in a right wing dictatorship then in left wing one. Burma is a totalitarian state but not as worse as North Korea

Answer 5

I think North Korea is a more severe, isolating government, but I think it is more industrialized than Myanmar (Burma).

Answer 6

Burma is sligtly better. But generally niether of them are good. Only difference is that Burma is a dictatorship and DPRK is communist.

Answer 7

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Japan!
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Harigato!