Tuesday, October 23, 2012

IRAN/KOREA: DISSIMILARITIES

Iran can’t be treated like N.Korea

Iran has a gigantic economy with its GDP at a staggering $0.82 trillion (in PPP) which is 20 times that of North Korea’s lopsided GDP of $40 billion; lopsided, because there are almost no small businesses allowed in North Korea, an essence of growth. Most importantly, Iran is witnessing a political transformation with the recent open protests, which clearly not only showed that such open protests are ended by negotiations and legal arrests and not by massacres (as happens in North Korea), but more importantly also show that there is a burgeoning community within Iran that is not anti-Obama and is looking forward to him to make a difference. This is unlike North Korea, where generations are still being fed anti-US rhetoric by the Kim Jong clan, and free media is a sham.

Obama has to treat Iran better than Korea. Most because the seemingly religious Islamic Republic of Iran is supremely democratic; and the seemingly people loving Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is supremely non-democratic!


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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