Which country is better, North Korea or Myanmar (Burma)?
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Burma is better but North Korea is more industrialised.\n\nAs 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.\n\nTo 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.\n\nBurma 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.\n\nBurma has much better resources including decent farm productivity, forestry, fish, gems and tourism.\n\nNorth 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.
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Currency of Burma(Currently Myanmar) is KYAT (MMK), the major unit and pya is the minor unit. \n\nkyats per US dollar - 5.761 (2005), 5.7459 (2004), 6.0764 (2003), 6.5734 (2002), 6.6841 (2001)
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North Korea hates the United States since the end of WWII, not because of Bush. North Korea was supported by the then Soviet Union and the South by the United. So the hate goes back to the Communist-Democracy tensions. \nI do not believe that North Korea will start WWIII because it does not have the capability of executing it. If it launches a missle, that means North Korea will have to face the militaries of the United States, Japan, and South Korea. Given that, they'd pay dearly if they launched a missile.
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Anytime soon? No. There are stirrings of revolt in North Korea, but not enough to effectively take over the country.\n\nWith Kim Jong-il's grip on the country, I would guess it would take his death for any kind of realistic revolution to occur and the two Korea's to be reunited.
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deadliest ? N.Korea\ndisciplined ? India
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I definitely think people should judge nations. Countries like North Korea, Iran, and the Sudan are threatening the lives of millions, in some cases threatening the entire world. So in that sense one nation can be judged greater than another.\n\nI believe culturally and politically India is a stronger nation.
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I think you can replace North Korea with Canada.
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A democracy elects its government by popular vote.  A republic does not have a monarchy.\n\nUSA and India are both democracies and republics.  UK and Thailand are both democracies but not republics (as they both have monarchies).\n\nBurma (which calls itself Myanmar now) is a republic but not a democracy (the democratically elected government is under house arrest).  Nepal is neither a democracy nor a republic as it has an absolute monarch.  North Korea is a republic but not really a democracy (although it calls itself a democracy because people have to vote.  As North Koreans have only one candidate to choose from at election time, most people would not really regard this as a democracy.)
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uhh..i would like to visit japan more but i think that korea would get my vote because...it has a K in it and i have a K in my name. but i also have an N in my name (japaN)
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North Korea likes to shout about having nukes, although the reality is that they probably don't have anything of significance in terms of a weapon. They have never tested any bombs and many analysts believe that their stance is a bluff designed to extract concessions from the rest of the World. They are a corrupt, piss-poor, 3rd World country ruled by a dictator. North Korea is a bankrupt state with more than 50% of its population living below the starvation line, whilst South Korea is a prosperous country with a growing economy. North Korea needs money to prop itself up, in much the same way as the Soviet Union needed cash to keep itself afloat (hence its eventual collapse).\n\nIran on the other hand is ruled by fanatical Muslims who frequently state that Israel should be wiped from the face of the Earth, and that all infidels i.e. non-Muslims should be converted to Islam or killed.\n\nThey do not seek to obtain nuclear weapons in order to defend themselves or to use as a bargaining tool, but to strike out at other countries which are non-Muslim.\n\nTherefore, there is a major difference between North Korea, which is a shaky country, but one which simply wants cash from the West in order to keep its economy going, and the likes of Iran which wants the bomb to intimidate or even to use against its "enemies". That is why Iran is such a danger to the civillised World.
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People's Republic of China, North Vietnam, North Korea
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I think Shwedagon pagoda is a most famous pagoda in the world in Myanmar.
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My information is a little dated, but for what it's worth here's my $0.02.\n\nPolitically, the government is run by the military and everything is very corrupt and bureaucratic. The government is funded primarily by narco-trafficing and indirectly by China. The situation has been very bad for the Burmese people with no real change.\n\nUN sanctions have been in place for some time now, but they are a joke since the government is funded through bribery and extortion. Unlike Thailand which is enjoying growth of the asian economies, Mayanmar remains backwards and repressive.\n\nThe people on the other hand are very nice and hospitable. The food is an interesting mix of Indian and Asian and the people are very genuine and friendly.
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North Korea's Kim Jong Il
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Not really but this might help.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar\n\nhttp://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=8885\n\nhttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Dictators/CommitPerfectDictatorship.html\n\nhttp://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2001.nsf/webasacountries/MYANMAR?OpenDocument
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If you judge it by it's written history, China far outweighs any other country. If you judge it by it's inception, Africa.
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Seoul is the capital of South Korea. Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea. The South Korean Government is planning to move its capital to the Yeongi-Kongju area with work starting in 2007 for with the first phase being completed in 2012 with completion in 2030.