Tag: economic decline

Like North Korea, Putin’s Russia ‘Destroying Itself From Within,’ Akhmetov Says

May 31, 2014

Staunton, May 31 – In the 1950s, North Korea was developing rapidly and South Korea was extremely poor, but over the succeeding decades, North Korea cut itself off from the world, became ever more authoritarian, and bankrupted itself with massive military spending. South Korea did just the reverse and is now the economic powerhouse on […]