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Mr Khan on 14 April 2012
Rath said:
superchunk said:
Can't we just jump in and take them over. Its worked so well with Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.


It's pretty much inevitable that North Korea will actually reunite with the South. Both countries have common cultures and history and want to eventually reunite (and I find it much more likely that the communist regime will collapse than South Koreas government).

It's just that nobody wants it yet because it will destroy the South's economy.

It's the same problem as "austerity" though. The plight of the North Korean people is only going to get worse by all accounts, and the longer they wait to deal with the inevitable, the worse it will be in the dealing.

Not that i advocate war with North Korea to re-integrate it, but it's going to have to be done.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 14 April 2012
Mr Khan said:
Rath said:
superchunk said:
Can't we just jump in and take them over. Its worked so well with Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.


It's pretty much inevitable that North Korea will actually reunite with the South. Both countries have common cultures and history and want to eventually reunite (and I find it much more likely that the communist regime will collapse than South Koreas government).

It's just that nobody wants it yet because it will destroy the South's economy.

It's the same problem as "austerity" though. The plight of the North Korean people is only going to get worse by all accounts, and the longer they wait to deal with the inevitable, the worse it will be in the dealing.

Not that i advocate war with North Korea to re-integrate it, but it's going to have to be done.

Germany managed to steer EU rules and economy to make other members pay the bill for its reunification. SK could persuade other Asian nations to form an Asian Union and do the same.   



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SnakeDrake on 14 April 2012

If North Korea opens up the possibilities would be endless. It can become the next China offering a huge labour force, cheap land and plentiful resources.



 

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Rath on 14 April 2012
Mr Khan said:
Rath said:
superchunk said:
Can't we just jump in and take them over. Its worked so well with Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.


It's pretty much inevitable that North Korea will actually reunite with the South. Both countries have common cultures and history and want to eventually reunite (and I find it much more likely that the communist regime will collapse than South Koreas government).

It's just that nobody wants it yet because it will destroy the South's economy.

It's the same problem as "austerity" though. The plight of the North Korean people is only going to get worse by all accounts, and the longer they wait to deal with the inevitable, the worse it will be in the dealing.

Not that i advocate war with North Korea to re-integrate it, but it's going to have to be done.

The North Korean economy can't get much worse really, it's practically non-existant.

What's probably going to happen upon reintegration is a period of some years where North Korea won't be fully integrated (and the border won't be open) which will be used to build up the North's economy.



Naum on 14 April 2012

Not to worry they will spin it so it looks like it did what it was supposed to do



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Rath on 14 April 2012
Naum said:
Not to worry they will spin it so it looks like it did what it was supposed to do


Nope. Confirmed to have failed on Korean state TV.



haxxiy on 14 April 2012

So it was a bit like this:



 

 

 

 

 

UnknownFact on 14 April 2012
superchunk said:
Can't we just jump in and take them over. Its worked so well with Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

1. A nation that thinks like you do is far much worse than any nation that resembles North Korea. I prefer a North Korea than a nation that thinks like you. Besides, Koreans have never invaded anyone in 5000 years of history. Total opposite of a nation that has invaded a hundred nations in less than 300 years.

2. It's not the same thing.

 



Eternal on 14 April 2012

North Korea is proud country and I am proud of them.They don't allow anyone to dictate them what to say and do.Communism has probably failed as a ideology but it is one of the most noble and sincere thoughts of last few centuries and Korea has every right to stick with it.



Rath on 14 April 2012
Eternal said:
North Korea is proud country and I am proud of them.They don't allow anyone to dictate them what to say and do.Communism has probably failed as a ideology but it is one of the most noble and sincere thoughts of last few centuries and Korea has every right to stick with it.


They're an authoritarian regime that subjugates their own people. They allow no dissent - any dissent is punished with hard labour in camps where many of the prisoners die.

Marxism may be a sincere thought, however the regime is more in the line of Stalin. A brutal totolitarian regime that controls through overwhelming military force, a cult of personality and terror.