Since U.S. ties improved, Vietnam's growth has surged. 'North Korea is now like Vietnam in the past. They are looking for new ways to get out of their isolated situation,' says a Vietnamese analyst.
"In light of the once-unimaginable prosperity and partnership we have with Vietnam today, I have a message for Chairman Kim Jong Un: President Trump believes your country can replicate this path," Pompeo said."It's yours if you'll seize the moment. The miracle could be yours; it can be your miracle in North Korea as well."
Tourists in Hanoi pose for a photo in front of a statue of Russian Communist Party founder and Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.Tourists in Hanoi pose for a photo in front of a statue of Russian Communist Party founder and Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.But it won't be easy convincing an isolationist, xenophobic North Korean government that is deeply suspicious of the U.S.
"The North Korean delegations all the time asked me, 'Why did you normalize relations with the U.S.?'" he says."'You have been fighting for so long and now you make friends with Washington, how did you do it?'" The simple answer, he says, was necessity. Like North Korea now, Vietnam between 1975 and 1995 was crippled by economic sanctions and a U.S. trade embargo. And even though Vietnam started liberalizing its economy in 1986, a process known asNguyen Manh Hung , the owner of a Hanoi coffee shop, posed for this photo with President Obama and others during Obama's 2016 visit to Vietnam. He thinks Kim Jong Un should learn from Vietnam's example and make peace with the U.S.
Hanoi is full of major U.S. brands — KFCs and Starbucks, Burger Kings and Brooks Brothers, Popeye's and Pepsi-Cola. But Vietnam's increasingly capitalist economic culture hasn't dented the Communist Party's stranglehold on political power. It
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