Baltenstein wrote:Nemohsis wrote:
Unified Korea would be great economically long term, terrible short term. SK needs more ppl, and I'd love to see us unified (Im a south korean). Hopefully we can pull off another miracle reconstruction like after Korean War.
Unifying Korea would be ten times the challenge the re-unification of Germany was, truth be told.
Exactly, besides the South suddenly having to deal with a population that’s half the size of its own populace, many of these people with be hungry, lacking skills vital to a modern economy, or for lack of a better term, brainwashed. Not to mention the fact that NK wouldn’t magically stabilise overnight following reunification, and of course the elephant in the room: China.
Yeah. I don’t even them at all, East and West Germany was a cakewalk in comparison.