A collapsing DPRK may very well end up reunifying the peninsula - - but probably not peaceably.
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South Korea can keep China neutral I think, by promising not to militarize the northern part of the country at all and to boot out the US within a few years of reunification.
“I feel reunification is now not far off.”
Asian culture and history has a different perspective on the passage of time than we do.
I’m reminded of a passge from George HW Bush’s book “Looking Forward”. In this book, he describes a meeting that he and Henry Kissinger had with Mao Tse-Tung.
Mao and Kissinger were talking about the rift between the PRC and Taiwan. Mao told Kissinger that the issue would be settled in time, probably a hundred years or so. Bush said that Mao’s comment was more or less saying “We’ve been around for a very long time and we can be patient”.
I wonder if the comment made by South Korea’s PM could be interpreted in the same manner?
On Thursday, President Lee Myung-bak said North Koreans are now much aware of the outside world.
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It may sound a bit crazy, but isn’t there a way to airdrop (or by some other means) like a million iPods, then beam in Internet access - even if it was large WiFi’s on the border?
Something to give them internet access, where they could learn the truth of their situation.
The people in NK are starving. The young girl at the beginning of this video was later found dead after she starved. She was destitute after the deaths of her father and mother.
It’s stuck in my head for the last few days.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/8113817/Inside-North-Korea-exclusive-footage.html
Not gonna happen. China will never give up territory they've bled for.
They'll find another puppet and attach tighter strings.