Oh no, here we go with the “Marshall Plan for North Korea” talk again… [Korea Times]
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Oh no, here we go with the “Marshall Plan for North Korea” talk again… [Korea Times]
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The reason behind the Marshall Plan was to prevent countries from turning communist. This plan keeps them communist.
Worse, Marshall was also Sec. Defense during the Korean War. No doubt he is spinning in his grave.
To elaborate on what kyochan said, a crucial difference is that the marshall plan was given to struggling democracies after the devastating confluence of unfortunate events in 1947 that seemed to put the tentative European postwar recovery in jeopardy.
Ultimately, the Marshall plan was economically immaterial to Europe’s recovery–not to say it didn’t matter. It made a huge difference by making the Europeans “believe in themselves again” (to quote somewhere in the first part of Tony Judt’s borderline-spectacular work, Postwar
This is doing the opposite–South Korea is not helping the citizens of a democracy believe in themselves, but helping a monstrous regime to maintain its fragile (while still staggeringly murderous) total grip on its victims.