The problem with reunification is many S. Koreans don’t want it. They’ve become accustomed to their lifestyle and know well to unify means less for them. Additionally the people of N.Korea have been brutiliszed and undernourished for so long it has affected mentally and physically...let alone living under Kim’s personality cult.
The refugies have very difficult time adjusting to modern times and the abundunce in the south. Additionaly the people have little education.....many of the woman who escape end up as prostitutes or in the human trafficking
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It would take a International effort of great perportion to even get their country on a level keel to sustain itself. And countries currently have great problems already. It’s just a very sad and difficult situation all around.
I’m sure you are correct on all counts, but in my mind, they don’t have to reunify with South Korea; they only have to kick the current regime to the curb.
I understand that is much easier said than done, but the North Koreans are running out of options.
They’re starving, they are repressed to the point of death, and China isn’t in a position to cushion the regime’s bad/dangerous decisions indefinitely.
I don’t know how they’d manage to do it, but How can they continue down the same road they’ve been on?
I think a reunified Korea would ultimately rival China as the dominant power in the region. It happened in Germany, it can happen in Korea. Germany is far better off now btw.