From the article: "North Korea threatened South Korea with 'final destruction' during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, sayin

From the article: "North Korea threatened South Korea with 'final destruction' during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take further steps after a nuclear test last week." The Republic of Korea (South Korea) has an official Ministry of Unification http://eng.unikorea.go.kr/CmsWeb/viewPage.req?idx=PG0000000511 http://eng.unikorea.go.kr/CmsWeb/viewPage.req?idx=PG00000005... tasked with figuring out how to promote eventually reunification of Korea under one national government. The reunification of China (the mainland region and Taiwan) is an official policy of the regimes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, with substantial dissent from that policy in Taiwan. The reunification of Vietnam was achieved by the Vietnam War, not at all peacefully. The reunification of Germany by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the political changes in eastern Europe in 1989 was, alas, a cautionary example to South Korea. Observing how difficult it was for a developed, democratic country (West Germany) to absorb a backward former dictatorship (East Germany) made many South Koreans cautious about pushing forward the inevitable process of regime change in North Korea. But while North Korea is officially bent on destruction of South Korea, the long-term hope for peaceful development of the Korean Peninsula makes eventual regime change, peaceful or otherwise, inevitable for North Korea. Putting off the inevitable appears to be allowing the south even more time to widen its economic and political gap with the north, and to gain much trade and many diplomatic links with countries all around the world, even China, the only consistent ally and supporter North Korea has. But sooner or later, the regime in the north has to go. It is ready to be put on the ash heap of history and eventually to become no more than a painful memory of a period of oppression that led to a kind of national insanity.