In my country, because of the cold war with North Korea, the country demands us to join the military and also developing in weapons except nuclear weapons.
Due to the special relationship between Philippines and the US in which one of the US bases is located in Philippines and it sparked the cold war with government and its residents.
Not only in Korea, the cold war impacted a lot of things. I think the cold war is not a positive thing, however, sometime these sort of things could promote development. For instance, the growth of military weapons in Korea.