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| A Korea Whole and Free | |
| 2014-07-20 | |
| Why Unifying the Peninsula Won't Be So Bad After All Given all these advantages, the international community should promote reunification, not postpone it. There may be little that any outsider can do to make Pyongyang change course. But regional powers, notably South Korea and the United States, should stop propping up the Kim dynasty in return for fleeting assurances of better behavior, as they have in the past; Kim Jong Un is no more likely to keep these promises than his father or his grandfather was. Nor should the West resist the urge to tighten sanctions or retaliate proportionately in response to North Korea’s provocations for fear of destabilizing the country. Even if the North were to implode now, that would be preferable to allowing the state to limp along for decades and waiting for reforms that will never come.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 North Koreans who have escaped to South Korea have a hard time of it. Bad nutrition has left them short and not as sharp as average. They lack the skills and education to fit into a high tech capitalist society like S.Korea. A fair number of them move on to Asian countries that are less developed than S. Korea. They also have anger management issues since they realize how badly they have treated but can't take vengeance on those who abused them and their relatives. There has even been a noticeable drift in the language between North and South. |
| Posted by: Pearl Borgia1889 2014-07-20 15:07 |
| #4 the Chinese believe that Norks are a historical part of China (Goguryeo) and need to be again (vassal state, satellite, whatever). Large parts of South Korea were also part of China. If China absorbs NK, the south should be nervous. 2 - the Chinese do not want a prosperous multi-party republic on their border. Not sure that's still the case. They are doing OK with Hong Kong. Taiwan and ROK are technically neighbors. So is Thailand. If I had to choose between a nuclear armed basket case and a prosperous democracy, I know who I'd choose. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2014-07-20 11:27 |
| #3 1 - the Chinese believe that Norks are a historical part of China (Goguryeo) and need to be again (vassal state, satellite, whatever). 2 - the Chinese do not want a prosperous multi-party republic on their border. 3 - the Chinese certainly don't want a country with a major military connection to the US on their immediate border. 4 - the realists in Sork understand the cost of unification as they saw what happened with German unificaiton. Those in China also see the cost of directly absorbing the Norks. It ain't pretty. 5 - so regardless of the use of the word 'humanitarianism' thrown around by so many of the ruling caste to justify actions here and there, the people of Nork are screwed. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-20 09:04 |
| #2 Yea, sure, look at united Germanies. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-20 08:57 |
| #1 NK is a push over. If ever confronted militarily, they would sustain incredible losses. That is the reason for all the song and dance in the NK. To make the paper tiger appear to be real. |
| Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-20 08:31 |