Well, if you read the history of the country, and how it came to be split in the first place, you’ll start to see how it went down. Notice the reasonings given for China not being able to maintain a strong centralized grip…they’re all characteristics that a place like Korea doesn’t share. It’s a small peninsula to begin with, and splitting it in half obviously just made it that much smaller. (I.e, more easy to control.) And of course, a peninsula is just one step away from being an island anyway, and if you look at the region, it may as well be an island, as the mainland area it’s connected to isn’t exactly the Florida/Georgia border. So that’s aspect two. Aspect three is the culture difference. People often conflate Asian cultures, but they are incredibly different. Completely different language, different customs…you should read up sometime on the different customary etiquette rules for using chopsticks in all the different countries that actually use chopsticks. It may surprise you.
So you have physical/geographical isolation, cultural/language isolation, and a relatively small population…and a region literally barricaded off as a result after the end of a world war, creating a new country basically over night. This is all ripe conditions for a totalitarian takeover. It’s not every day and every place that something like this can occur.
You would have to specify which times in history you’re speaking of for each of those claims, but even still, I’m not sure of the point you’re trying to make there.
One thing you have to consider (which most people don’t) is how exactly the anarchy came about. Bob Murphy goes into this using the case of Somalia here. (For more info, see here.)
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There are few guarantees in life. Why won’t you die tomorrow?
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See the links above
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The old “wild west” of America is another great historical example.
I’m not quite sure how that works. You mean Apple and Facebook would become a new government if the US government crumbled?