Third world is historically outside the American (first world) and Soviet bloc (second world).
I don‘t think it‘s terribly relevant today, but why beat around the bush? Let‘s call it how we mean it:
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> Third world is historically outside the American (first world) and Soviet bloc (second world).
Right, and Korea is so incredibly-not "third world" that there's literally an armed border chopped across it dividing the extremely-First part from the extremely-Second part.
In fact, I don't think there's a single third-world country (cold-war definition) anywhere within 2,000 miles.