South Korea and North Korea have ethnically identical populations with a shared history and culture dating back thousands of years. But they are vastly divergent in their political systems—and hence, also, in their approach to the novel coronavirus. South Korea has been a world leader in combatting the pandemic while keeping its economy running. By contrast, North Korea has had to resort to draconian, brute-force methods to keep the contagion at bay. While those methods may be successful in limiting infections, they have done serious damage to an already anemic economy.
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