Posted on 06/12/2018 1:07:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump's historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday, following on the heels of the two Korean leaders meeting a little over two months ago, has raised the question of whether North Korea and South Korea would ever reunite.
Analysts say unifying North and South Korea could cost a trillion dollars under the best of circumstances and take several decades. The final price tag would also depend largely on what the catalyst for reunification is.
Some analyses put the cost of reunification at far more -- closer to $3 trillion. Experts argue that much of the cost surrounding any scenario for Korean unification would depend on whether the countries decided to converge gradually or if a chaotic event occurs. If the reform were carefully planned and followed by a peaceful union, it would be far less expensive than if North Korea's economy collapsed or a war broke out, requiring massive reconstruction costs.....
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Not thousands of lives, ya filthy Big Media Freaks?
Hey Jillian!!
What’s your price estimate on a NUCLEAR WAR?!?!?!?!?!
LOL!
Indeed, these guys are STUPID.
Korea has it, or can get it.
LCD prices going up... 3..2..1.
I was always surprised at how W. Germany somehow footed the immense bill for integrating with E. Germany.
Gettin a little ahead of yourselves with the gloom and doom, CBS. I would think private investment would cover a lot of it.
And...some analysts don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
How much is overthrowing the egyptian and libyan governments costing us?
#OkWhenObamaDoesIt
I think most former West Germans regret reunification now.
Oh, yeah. Now libs are great fiscal conservatives.
How about they work on getting our $1.7 billion that Obama and Kerry donated to the mullahs back? The Fake News never had a problem with that.
Since when do liberals worry over the cost of ANYTHING?............................
Why would it cost trillions? Peace and Love are free! Now get to work NK & SK!
Cost is never as important as who pays.
It should not be a US cost.
We’d better get on it before China does.
China is an AHOLE in that area, and will do it just to claim the land and the people. They are already eyeing up Korea.
China already claims the waters. And the CCP will gladly claim that entire body of water right up to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Yeah they still think Obunghole is in office with pallet loads of US $ to give away!
Not our circus. Not our monkeys.
What a fact-less article (including the links from the so-called “experts”).
Yup, people keep forgetting that.
Ask West Germans...
We could save trillions by ending the war on poverty.
50 years later all we have to show for it are broken homes and economic refugees from third world nations.
Poverty will never go away when we keep importing tens of millions of poor people.
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