There won’t be a reuniting of the two for their cultures language, and lifestyles are night and day now. N.Korea operates in the 50’s......the culture shock for N.Korean defectors is always evident.....terrible awakening to see you’ve been brainwashed for decades and left behind the rest of the world......and that it was the USA that was feeding you what little that could get through Fatboys hands.
An entire nation in shock flooding over the borders could not be sustained.
Well, I know that S. Korean churches for years have been working on contingency plans each to “adopt” different N.Korean villages and to feed and clothe them. And one of my friends, a retired S. Korean language professor (born in N. Korea, but his family was able to escape to the South at the beginning of the Korean War), has for a number of years been working on materials for the S.Korean government on teaching North Koreans to speak and understand the Southern dialect, but you are right.
It’s harder in reunification for some than others. Another one of my friend’s parents are both from N.Korea. But they were the only part of their families to escape. Since they were part of the “landlord” class or medical professionals, it is believed that the rest of their two families were executed by the Communists during the Korean war.
I’ve heard that many in South Korea would like reunification someday, but not anytime soon. The countries are so different, and reunion would place such severe burdens on the South, that any reunification should happen slowly and step by step. At least that’s what I’ve heard from some south Koreans. To see Kim start a war , be defeated, and then see immediate reunification/military occupation, is not what South Korea wants to see happen.