{"id":11129,"date":"2013-04-08T13:27:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11129"},"modified":"2013-04-08T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:30:43","slug":"comparing-north-and-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11129","title":{"rendered":"Comparing North and South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper today has a fascinating comparison of North Korea and South Korea which you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/datablog\/2013\/apr\/08\/south-korea-v-north-korea-compared\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two basic tests of how a government delivers for its citizens are the number of years you can expect to live and the standard of living you can expect to enjoy in those years.<\/p>\n<p>Life expectancy in North Korea is 69.2 years, while in South Korea it is 79.3 years so, on average, you will live a whole decade longer if you reside in the South.<\/p>\n<p>GDP per capita is a mere $1,800 in North Korea compared to $32,400 in South Korea, so again on average you will have a standard of living 18 times higher if you live in the South.<\/p>\n<p>In these circumstances, it is utterly tragic that North Korea spemds more than a fifth ((22.3%) of its entire GDP on military expenditure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper today has a fascinating comparison of North Korea and South Korea which you can see here. Two basic tests of how a government delivers for its citizens are the number of years you can expect to live and the standard of living you can expect to enjoy in those years. Life expectancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11134,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129\/revisions\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}