SoKo President Moon is a socialist and gives the appearance of being a very weak personality. A little push by Kim and Moon will run for the nearest hole, stepping down in the precess and leaving a vacuum for Kim to fill.
Will the people of SoKo accept Kim, given that they are now reunited with their families and friends once trapped in the North?
SoKo has a powerful army, but if Moon steps down and all the others defer, then the SoKo army is leaderless. Of course, as part of any unification deal, the US force will have to go. So there is no help for the people of SoKo there.
Unless something unforeseen happens, I think in 10 years or less Kim will run a unified Korea, restarting his nuclear and ICBM programs. Gives the Millennials something to look forward to on the world stage ...
That would be a pretty left-field prediction right there. The CCP wouldn’t DARE allow him to run a unified Korea. They like Moon and do whatever is necessary to keep everyone in the region compliant and “friendly”.
Right now he provides pretty-much-slave labor for China and will do anything that China asks of him including open-air nuclear dumps.
But what China does with Taiwan will set the tone for the region for a 100 years. So if Taiwan is taken, everyone will fall in line with whatever the CCP wants to happen.