| Kasz216 said: I... don't see the difference. The Taliban wasn't widely supported either. They were basically propped up by the Pakistan Taliban and Bin Laden at that point. They had long gone out of favour with the people. They're more popular now then they were when NATO invaded due to the whole making deals with warlords and being surprised they have a corrupt government approach. |
Yes but the Koreans are one people and consider themselves as such, the South Koreans overseeing security in the North will not be seen as having foreign invaders to such a degree.
Also while the Taliban were not supported by the population as a whole there was enough support for fundamentalist Islam that the secular democratic state that was set up was simply never going to appease a large segment of the population. The idealogical reasons for opposing a new government in N.Korea are much less problematic.
Basically Afghanistan can be seen in the wrong light as a foreign occupation against the idealogy and religion of much of the population. North Korea would be a non-foreign force without any major idealogical or religious problems.
In fact the major problem is likely to be economic rather than politcal, re-unification would require bringing the North Korean economy up to near the level of South Korea. It nearly bankrupt West Germany to do that for East Germany and North Korea is in worse shape than East Germany was.
