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That's a bit of a simplification, I think. The status quo benefits South Korea as well - reunification means absorbing crumbling infrastructure, 25 million unde
by owenmarshall 13y ago
That'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)....