Plutonists "won" the eighteenth-century debate about how rocks formed by demonstrating how limestone precipitates out of the ocean.

This is false. The ones who won were the neptunists. Both are at a loss though because it's much more complicated because it was after all the 18th century and science was as developed, but the neptunists were on to something and things that they said came true in one way or another.

North korea has been ruled by dictator since 1948