Abstract:North Korea and Myanmar both experienced core existential challenges early in their postcolonial history: the former via a challenger state in South Korea and its superpower ally the United States, the latter via multiple internal insurgencies. Both young states responded to these threats in an intensely militarized, authoritarian fashion. Their responses also eventually earned them pariah status, sanctioned respectively for their weapons programs and suppression of democracy. Myanmar, unlike North Korea, has been able to alleviate its security concerns with various battlefield victories and peace treaties in the 1990s and 2000s, and then turned to address the reasons for its pariah status. North Korea has been unable to find such a victory and thus is unlikely to escape its position as a sanctioned, isolated state.

中文翻译：

---

从比较的角度看朝鲜和缅甸的转型

摘要：朝鲜和缅甸在后殖民历史的早期都经历了核心生存挑战：前者通过韩国的挑战国及其超级大国美国，后者通过多次内部叛乱。两个年轻的国家都以高度军事化、专制的方式应对这些威胁。他们的回应最终也为他们赢得了贱民地位，分别因他们的武器计划和压制民主而受到制裁。与朝鲜不同，缅甸在 1990 年代和 2000 年代通过各种战场胜利和和平条约来缓解其安全问题，然后转向解决其被排斥地位的原因。朝鲜一直无法取得这样的胜利，因此不太可能摆脱其作为受制裁孤立国家的地位。