I was reading somewhere that as older South Koreans who remember the country being united are dying off that younger South Koreans who never knew that time don’t seem to be too hot on reunification. The latter group sees the North as so backwards that integrating it into the South that it would bring both countries down if it was attempted.
if the Japanese would bet anything that life was better for most Koreans in North Korea when they were ruled by us Japanese, they’d win the bet.
And as for re-unification, the Koreans I know are work-a-day, business-as-usual capitalists who saw the economic cost West Germany paid during that re-uni and aren’t interested in burning thru their won (and dollars) the way the West Germans plowed their marks into rescueing the Ossi’s.
It’s simpler just to have the leftist minority take control in the Republic of Korea and chant, “we surrender” to the illegal Pyongyang dictatorship.
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