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Does North Korea have a future? Is it possible that someday that the current rule is overthrown and the rights and lives of people are restored? Can anyone with
by middleclick 13y ago
Does North Korea have a future? Is it possible that someday that the current rule is overthrown and the rights and lives of people are restored? Can anyone with knowledge about this comment?
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoAs long as China wants a buffer with South Korea, it will keep North Korea going. Without China's support it would have collapsed long ago.
- owenmarshall 13y agoThat's a bit of a simplification, I think. The status quo benefits South Korea as well - reunification means absorbing crumbling infrastructure, 25 million undereducated and hungry people, and trying to integrate that with a technologically advanced economy. It'd make the costs of the German reunification look like nothing. It benefits everyone who isn't a citizen of North Korea for the current regime to stay in place.
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- emiliobumachar 13y agoThere could be many shades of grey between reunification and status quo.
- BrandonMarc 13y agoIt doesn't benefit the US taxpayer. How much aid has gone down the hole?
- pekk 13y agoI don't think you have any serious evidence that this is the South Korean thinking.
- owenmarshall 13y agohttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/27/south-north-korea-unification http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/27/south-north-kor...
- snogglethorpe 13y agoSouth Korea is afraid of sudden/violent collapse of the NK regime for such reasons, but South Koreans are overall in favor of eventual peaceful reunification (though I think enthusiasm for reunification is fading somewhat over time, as those with personal connections to people in NK die)....
- woodchuck64 13y agoWould it be a bad thing for China to covertly take over North Korea? One less headache for them, one less for us. I say we look the other way.
- bcoates 13y agoChina doesn't exactly have a successful track record of bringing neighboring Communist states under control.
- BrandonMarc 13y agoCould it be China already has covertly taken over NK, in as much as it feels it's worthy of doing? Maybe they have a big lever to control the place, or maybe they have a small one (that's still large enough to influence as needed).
- rsynnott 13y agoI'm not sure that Kim Jong-un would take very kindly to it. Oh, China could win it, if they really wanted to, but it's not like NK would just capitulate; it would be a very nasty, bloody land war.