The dirty little secret is South Korea does not want the North to collapse, or perhaps more accurately collapse too quickly. This would mean a flood of people, who probably after generations of indoctrination have no idea how to act on their own, into the South. The cost of bringing the North up to a economic position even resembling the South would be astronomicial; the reunifaction of Germany would look like a walk in the park.
The green-eye-shade, “reunification will cost money” is sort of short-sighted if you ask me. The resources of the north, including it’s people, are valuable. It is also very cold hearted to leave half or your nation enslaved because freeing them would have a cost.
Yep, but I don’t know if there will be much they can do about it.