"The example of East Germany exerts a far greater cautionary effect on the North Koreans than Qaddafi’s fate does. The Honecker regime took what Americans and South Koreans keep recommending to North Korea as the “pragmatic” way out of its problems: It began opening up to the West, quasi-formally recognized the rival coethnic state’s right to exist, and focused on improving its own citizens’ standard of living. We all know how that ended."
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Brian Reynolds Myers, as quoted in "Sympathy for North Korea: Why South Koreans might just be willing to align with Kim Jong-un." (3 January 2018), by Isaac Chotiner, Slate
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