What reason does the author suggest for why North Korea and the United States answer the three basic questions differently?

The difference in economic system they implemented.

Explanation:

Here are three basic questions of economy:

- What To produce ?

- For whom we produce it ?

- how to produce it ?

Since United States adopted a free market system , the answers to all of these basic questions will be depended on the power of supply and demand that created by consumers and the producers.

North Korea on the other hand, implemented a Centralized economy. So, the answers to all of these basic question will be fully determined/decided by the government. The people have no power to influence them.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

explanation:

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