Word: bootheel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apex that the possibility of a cataclysmic social implosion cannot be ruled out. Not that many years ago, Pyongyang still confidently spread the word that Kim's homeland was a paradise on earth and that South Korea was a brutally poor, miserable place under Uncle Sam's bootheel. "The game is finished," observed one South Korean official. Not only is the South's economy 14 times stronger than the North's, he pointed out, but "the ideological game is also over. The only rational way for the North is to cooperate, save face and gradually integrate...