Sorry but no...that’s lately been the US and their closest allies. At least during the last 5 decades or so.

And don’t think brain-washing is exclusive to North Korea either.

They’re greatly improving. 6.6 % growth this year as reported today.

China has 3500 years of history. Their culture and civilisation is incredibly rich. Guy needs to read a book once in a while.

They’re also the biggest loan giver of the US...and, btw, have just degraded the US to being as credit worthy as Chile..after Trump’s tax reform.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ratings-dagong/chinese-agency-dagong-cuts-u-s-sovereign-ratings-to-bbb-from-a-idUSKBN1F50OU?il=0

Lets hope this can be the first step of many in the right direction for NK. I'm not personally holding my breath but it would be nice.

I really doubt that it's anything more than a political move, to be honest.  North Korean propaganda is that there is no North-and-South Korea, just that part of Korea is controlled by "American Imperialism."  The U.S. is the bogeyman they use to keep the populace in check.  My guess is that they're going to try to talk up the power of a united Korea--even if most of the credit belongs to South Korea.  

I joked about it before but it's a place where the leaders keep power by maintaining complete control of information.  Letting go of that, even slightly, would expose too much and confidence in the government would begin to crumble overnight.  

This is not news. They do little stuff like this every couple of years. Let me know when the people throw off their dictator.

Yeah ... (You don't seem to know much about debt risk) 

Their ratings don't mean a whole lot when that agency rates their own nation as "AAA" so their definitely full of themselves ... (The only reliable credit rating agency is the big three which includes S&P, Fitch and Moody's all of which collectively control about 95% of the credit rating service market)

"They're also the biggest loan giver of the US", LOL you definitely don't have an idea of what your talking about ... 

Simply put: how does unification improve North Korea's opprtunity to blow evwryone else up?

I don't like fatboy either, but where's the logic.?

Are you honestly disputing facts?! 

https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-3306124

"In October 2017, China owned $1.2 trillion of U.S. debt. It's the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities. The second largest holder is Japan at $1.1 trillion. "

China is no better or worse than America really.  You are trapped in your fear based ideology.  I actually feel bad for you.  Its like self inflicted torture.  Always having to believe the worst about everything.  

And those are the people talking about others being brainwashed....