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To: Saturn V who wrote (182661)	11/11/2005 3:29:36 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Saturn, Japan,Taiwan,Korea, Malaysia and Thailand have done well without totalitarian rule. That's not entirely true for South Korea. Since the war, South Korea has been ruled by a series of totalitarian strongmen backed by America for obvious reasons. Most of them were disasterous with the sole exception of Park Jung-Hee of the 1970's, who helped to bring about industrial modernization. Of course, he made many political enemies in the process, which soon led to a coup d'etat and his death in 1979 or 1980 (I forget exactly when). The guy who followed Park, Chun Do Hwan, was basically a tyrant and is now branded an enemy of the state. (He's in hiding how.) Given this tumultuous history, it's a modern-day miracle that South Korea even got to where it is today. Tenchusatsu