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North Korea was in essence a puppet state of both the Soviet Union and China however despite being under thumb many of the populace had access to many things including western goods and materials and had relative freedom of movements even being able to visit South Korea and vice versa. That all changed on June 25th 1950.
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North Korea now is nothing like when the war began. The North developed their own communism branch, Juche, and as generations passed this ideology was obused to exploit many parts of its people. It’s practically a religion worshiping the dictators of the North, focusing military first. This was practiced after the war, so pretty sure pre-war North was more ‘sane’ in some sense.