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What Would Korean Reunification Look Like? Five Glaring Problems to Overcome
Time Magazine ^ | April 26, 2018 | Charlie Campbell

Posted on 05/13/2018 5:24:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The problem I see is the North Korean people adjusting to the idea that it is OK to think. For 70 years, people in North Korea have been living in a police state that has been more severe than East Germany. In years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the people in East Germany still had some contact with the west, with some stuff done on the sly with a little payoff to the right people in real currency (D-Marks, Francs, Pounds, Dollars, etc). Not the case in Norkland, which had efficiently insulated themselves from the outside (except for select members of the nomenklatura, and even that was extremely risky). So everyone in Norkland spends every waking second walking on eggshells, afraid if anything could be interpreted as a slight against Gteat Leader/Dear Leader/what do they call Kim Jong Un.


21 posted on 05/13/2018 8:02:39 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: bigbob

Yes, after the missile crisis in Cubar. :)


22 posted on 05/13/2018 8:05:16 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Snickering Hound

More like Brazil.


23 posted on 05/13/2018 8:05:16 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1. Nuclear fallout


24 posted on 05/13/2018 8:35:17 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Probably similar to Germany. Those deemed too old to participate would be probably just be pensioned off and the younger ones would be given an education to help them adapt.


25 posted on 05/13/2018 8:39:46 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not clicking on Time to see the mysterious 5 problems. But one of them should be how do you do it without going after 10,000+ people for crimes against humanity. Do we just ignore what they did to the victims if they give up the nukes and reunify with South Korea or what?

Freegards


26 posted on 05/13/2018 8:44:31 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not going to happen so file this article under “Fantasy”. Maybe in 50 years when the Kim family is long dead and buried.


27 posted on 05/13/2018 8:59:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

BTTT.


28 posted on 05/13/2018 9:59:52 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a load of crap was that article.

North Korea is bankrupt and starving. Kim has nuclear weapons and that is all he has. He has a choice of joining South Korea in peace or perhaps being killed by his own military.

It is doubtful he has a delivery system for his nuclear weapons unless he had Chinese designs or perhaps Pakistan. It is easy to make a big bomb. It is not easy to make miniaturized suitable for an ICBM that could hit the USA. Kims reentry vehicles have not been tested in real world circumstances.


29 posted on 05/13/2018 10:33:32 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Transaction - “It’s going to be complicated and hard - no wonder no other President really wanted to deal with it.....


30 posted on 05/14/2018 3:27:53 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Helping put NK on it’s feet, might be just the thing to put GE back on it’s feet! NK needs electricity, and all those things that use electricity.


31 posted on 05/14/2018 3:32:51 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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"...everyone in Norkland spends every waking second walking on eggshells, afraid if anything could be interpreted as a slight against Great Leader..."

I read an account of a guy sent to their gulag. He was supposed to wear a lapel pin extolling the Leader on a certain day. He forgot. Someone ratted him out, and he, his immediate family, and parents all got sent to the camps for that transgression.

32 posted on 05/14/2018 7:00:49 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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"...Kims reentry vehicles have not been tested in real world circumstances...."

Many think his reentry vehicle is ultimately going to be a shipping container!

And hey, it's a proven technology.

33 posted on 05/14/2018 7:03:23 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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