Indeed, it is also experiencing a massive upsurge in its tourist industry. Korea was a mess made by Truman and compounded by McCarthy. It's also interesting to look at Japan and see the often brutal repression of the trade union movement there by US backed governments in the 60s and 70s (seriously there are some YouTube videos of strikes in Japan in the 70's that make orgreave look like a vicars tea party) And also in the Philippines - where a civil war with communist Guerillas rages to this day. Vietnam can still call itself a socialist republic though, despite the westernisation whereas NK despite being called communist by the media is a hereditary autocracy that removed all mention of socialism from its constitution in the late 60's.