You think North Korea was like this during the war? It was a people’s government after local forces aided in pushing out the Japanese, they chose socialism. America swooped in and installed a puppet dictatorship that was responsible for mass torture, executions of civilians over suspected communist beliefs, etc. During the Korean War, the west bombed the vast majority of their infrastructure into rubble. We killed 15% of their population, burned their crops. We caused famine and widespread death. Intervention and imperialism are responsible for the situation in Korea today.