2021.08.16 08:12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Afghanistan
The great challenge to Afghanistan's future isn't the Taliban, or the Pakistani safe havens or even an incipiently hostile Pakistan," Gen. John R. Allen told a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee in 2014. "The existential threat to the long-term viability of modern Afghanistan is corruption." He stated that the insurgency, criminal patronage networks, and drug traffickers had formed "an unholy alliance".[9]
Corruption is invariably common cause of the demise of a nation.
I think Chosun was as corrupted as Afghanistan from 1870 to 1910
if not worse. Japan happened to be there to take it.
http://www.siminsori.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=227024
황현은 『매천야록』에서 “민씨들이 정권을 잡자 백성들이 그 착취를 견디지 못해 자주 탄식하며 도리어 대원군 시절을 그리워했다.”고 적었다.
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