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Originally Posted by Eisdrache
While I do agree with the rest of what you said this annoys me every time I hear it. It is clear as day that it would be better for Korea to be united again even if the south would have to support the north for a very long time. Building up the north to the point where it can actually take care of itself will take decades and require billions indeed but when you're weighing the unification of the country, potentially saving millions of lives from starvation and removing the threat of a nutcase with nukes against setting back your economy for an extended period of time, the decision shouldn't be that hard.
Of course you'd have to find a way that doesn't include your country turning into a radioactive wasteland first.
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I'm more worried about what unification with North Korea would do to the massive regional success story that is South Korea. Absorbing another 60%-odd people into your population, many of whom were at least nominally fine with the "nutcase with nukes" currently in power, and all of whom have been ingrained from birth with the "truth" that the outside world, particularly that part south of the border, is the root of all evil, isn't exactly a proposition fraught with opportunity.