Posted on 12/04/2017 10:04:52 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
Much of the focus these days is on North Korea's nuclear capabilities, but the more significant point is the prospect of REUNIFICATION OF THE TWO KOREAS. It's interesting to ponder what the implications would be for the region and for the U.S. It would also clue us into why countries like China and Russia behave the way they do with regard to diplomatic negotiations there. They may have complex long-term considerations motivating them.
Some questions to consider regarding the prospects of reunification:
* Does disarmament or the fall of the Kim regime automatically imply reunification with the South? Will there be a U.S. military presence in the North? U.N. peacekeepers?
* Are the South Koreans prepared?
* Does China stand to gain or lose?
* Does Japan find a "united Korea" in their interest?
* What about Russia, which also shares a border and already has ongoing exchanges with the country?
* Does historical precedent clue us in to the possibilities? Will Korean reunification go the way of say, East and West Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall?
....”a lot of South Koreans do measure their self-worth by how well they dress and what kinds of things they purchase and consume”.....
Oh my gosh yes! Status climbers to the hilt! Especially the women and what they ‘require’ of their men.........it’s an Asian thing pretty much across the Asian cultures.... Also plastic surgery on their faces from the early teens upward is a given. Extremely important the ‘face’ you present is not too oriental. Eye surgery is more common than pulling a bad tooth.
More food...maybe even at some forbidden capitalistic place like McDonalds...Hear pop music for the first time, make foreign friends. Some NKers will walk into church...all this depends of course on how monitored their actions are by some supervisor or whatever.
Russian church bells alone would be quite the novelty though. They can be heard everywhere. Beats the worship anthems to their “Dear Leader” if you ask me. Its insane to think about how sheltered from reality their lives are.
I don’t know what fairy tale stories e you’re imagining but N.Korean worker brigade camps In Russia are well guarded by N.Korean guards.....no different than when they work in N.Korea. They cannot leave the camps and are just as afraid of messing up as they are in N.Korea. .....they get no income of their own it goes to Fat Boy and they have no choice to go and why its called ‘Forced labor”...........mcDonalds’ and Pop music...you’ve got to be kidding !
Yes, 2024.
They are working on things like the World Cup stadiums so its not out of the question to be exposed to things inadverdently. And I just wrote that I met a tourist who was able to converse with a group of them on a train. Better than nothing.
A Russian boss said North Koreans work crazily long hours even on weekends.. They dont take holidays. They eat, work and sleep and nothing else. And they dont sleep much, he said. They are basically in the situation of slaves.....
Korea was once a united nation. They’ll figure it out.
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