I still remember the Bush regime handing all those oil contracts to those POS p*ssy countries who didnt join in the Iraq invasion like France and Germany while we got nothing and our boys got killed every damn day for those ungrateful Iraqis. What’s in it for us?
This isn’t like the reunification of the two Germany’s, when communism in eastern Europe collapsed.
North Korea is still full commie, this will turn out much like the Vietnams. Give it time, and all will go to hell quickly if they allow the North to freely go south.
Why “pay” at all?
South Koreans are more intelligent than that insane hardline opposition “lawmaker”.
Korean Patriots Party’s wonder woman now has been locked up.
It would be suicide for South Koreans if there was any reunification unless 10 years,or more,of work is done in the North.East Germany was 10 times more “prosperous” when the wall fell than North Korea is today.
They need to wait about 120 years before they can talk of reunification. The current generations need to die off, and their memories with them, before any talk can begin. I don’t believe it can happen now, or even in 10 years, because both sides will remain far too suspicious of each other. Add to that the North Koreans are decades behind the rest of the world.
Imagine telling a North Korean that in most of the world, you can criticize your government and not get thrown in prison for it? They wouldn’t believe you.
why do you all want American money? Wasn’t 70 years of welfare enough? Sell some of that NK mineral wealth to pay for your reunification instead. We’re taking the nukes, now it’s up to you all to work out what a reunified Korea will look like. And don’t go all civil war. Nobody goes civil war anymore.
Unification will be a win win for the Koreas. Huge new markets, huge new resources, huge new labor pools...
But they cannot give the vote to the NKs all at once — that would be hugely disruptive. Maybe phase in the vote: First year, NKs under 19, second year, NKs under 21, third year, NKs under 23, etc. If things are going well, they can accelerate the process.
NK population is only half that of SK.
People will wonder why anyone was worried.
Reunification/regime change costs on the Peninsula will make the Reunification of the Germanies look like pocket change.
Environmental disasters, famine, disease, crime and infrastructure collapse (among other crises) will likely be of biblical proportion. The average ROK citizen in 2018 supports reunification in a fuzzy noncommittal way, but will likely balk at the costs, especially when it affects quality of life in the south.
Who then, subsidizes the reunion? America? The UN?
Who occupies the ruins of Norkland to provide security, establish stability and administer the aid efforts? We have contingency plans for the inevitable fall of NK, and in all of them the worst case scenarios have the Chinese taking advantage of a real or perceived gap to swarm south to the DMZ.
It won’t be boring that’s for sure...
Yep - lots of business opportunities would open up and help fund the process and make some folks lots of money...
Everyone is thinking about it the wrong way. Job one is the elimination of Communism in the North. After that the humans who understand free markets will build whatever is needed in NK and it won’t be a cost to the government, it will be an income generator to the government.
negotiation ploy and cover for the SK gov with their citizens