Trying to integrate NK into SK would need a 10-20 year transition, if it all happens at once, Korea would be impoverished again for a couple of generations. It is a much bigger difference than east and west Germany.
and remember East and West Germany never fought a war against each other.
It would take a heck of a lot longer than 20 years. It would be like trying to take someone suffering from profound mental retardation and putting them into MENSA. The damage done by the Kims to their people has virtually no equal in the past century, and the disconnect from their Southern brothers and sisters equally as vast.
We don’t really know the true population of North Korea. It may be way less than published.
The numbers to be integrated may not be severe
30-40 at least.
“Trying to integrate NK into SK would need a 10-20 year transition, if it all happens at once, Korea would be impoverished again for a couple of generations. It is a much bigger difference than east and west Germany.
and remember East and West Germany never fought a war against each other.”
You don’t think citizens in East Germany were not subjected to propaganda?
It was called the “cold war” and the majority of easterners complied and became believers, instead of (dead-imprisoned) rebels.
The temporary transition problems are offset by long term benefits.
I think the conditions are so different in the north and south of Korea, that the citizens would want what the south has.
My mother and her friends took out their 19 year old neighbor/friend for a farewell dinner when he was off to South Korea back in the 50’s and came home in a coffin..and she is always right in stating we should have nuked Mecca after 9/11 instead of invading Iraq and also we should just go ahead and nuke NK.
You are being extremely optimistic. Taiwan was a poor backwater province when the KMT retreated there at the end of the Chinese Civil War, it took till the 80's for them to make the uncomfortable transition to a modern democratic country. SK was a very poor country ruled by a military dictatorship in 1954, they made their transition to a modern democratic country ~1990.