Can someone give me a rundown of Korea's history? What

>>2059012
>split
Communist infiltrate from China, then the US invaded and converted half the slanties to glorious Capitalism, no idea about Kims though

>>2059012
Like how far back do you want to go? all the way back to the Hwan?

>>2059024
Northerners became communist and was under the spoils system but famines happened, natural disaster happened and then it collapsed.

>>2059031
Korean history isn't my speciality but didn't the famines occur in the South too?

>>2059048
They're still in famine and the south is constantly dying of starvation so maybe yes but they're under a different structure? Idk.

>>2059029
As far back as you're capable of summarising, do you know a lot about it?

>>2059031
You're saying the communism in North Korea worked for a while?

>>2059012
>Can someone give me a rundown of Korea's history?
They had a modest-sized empire for about a thousand years with only a few civil wars, never invaded by any outside power. The dominant religion was a form of Taoism but with a real focus on alchemy, you know, achieving spiritual perfection through refining mercury to a completely pure and neutral substance, stuff like that. In the 1700s the Emperor I-Forget-His-Name commissioned several scholars to design a more intuitive alphabet since only the aristocracy could read Chinese Hanzi and they came up with the Hangul alphabet, but when China saw them drifting away culturally, they invaded. Then in the 19th century Russia invaded and Japan invaded after that, and things were shitty for a long time.

>What were the causes for the split between the north and south?
The Soviets wanted them to be commies and America wanted them to be good little capitalist citizens. They fought a proxy war, each side got half of what they wanted, everybody wins.

>How did Kim Jon-un's family come into power?
They were members of the old alchemical aristocracy (although Kim Il-sung was actually born in the Soviet Union). The elder Kim broke with his family and wrote his university thesis on how the Taoist-orientalist alchemical tradition was a bunch of superstitious bourgeois nonsense, which attracted the attention of the country's Marxist, Soviet-backed intelligentsia, and he had gotten pretty prominent in the Korean Communist Party when the whole Civil War went down. The rest, as they say, is history.

>>2059058
Not really, it wasn't true communism because the elites got more food than the others.

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>>2059066
>it wasn't true communism
You meme'd yourself kiddo

>>2059058
There was a very short period where north korea was more developed than the south, and longer period where development was on par.
This isn't because north korea was economically better or anything, they just happened to get more dosh from the soviet union than the south koreans got from the states.

>>2059073
Look, let's not go to heavy into this stuff. It's enough to say that communism has like 2 mentions in the 1972 constitution and none in the 1948. In the 1972 constitution, the one after kim Il-Sung decided he wasn't really that fond of marxism, Language mostly centers on its independence as a socialist state.

>>2059012
>What were the causes for the split between the north and south?
Similar to East and West Germany. Following WW2 the Korean peninsula was divided into two occupation zones, the north to the Soviets and the south to the Americans. These zones would be organized into North and South Korea by their occupying powers.

>How did Kim Jon-un's family come into power?
Kim Il Sung was an important Korean communist partisan and intellectual that the Soviets installed as head of the newly created North Korean state. KIS was a die-hard Stalinist who cultivated a cult of personality that grew to the point where his power was unquestioned, he then appointed his son Kim Jong Il as his successor. KJI then focused on taking the fullest advantage of this cult of personality and this is when the really crazy shit started to happen and the evolution from a fairly typical if odd totalitarian cult of personality to fanatic religious devotion. At present Kim Jong Un is pretty much just keeping things as his father left him.

>>2059012
>Can someone give me a rundown of Korea's history?
Its basically the Asian Poland.

>>2059024
>Communist infiltrate from China,

Not what happened.

Fuck /his/

>>2059073
He's right though, it wasn't. No state has ever been properly communist or even claimed to be on the count that communism is explicitly classless, stateless and moneyless. If one portion of society is more privileged and empowered than another then clearly it isn't classless, North Korea does and has always had currency and I needn't explain why they're not stateless.

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