Koreans, do you want a United Korea?

Or, is the status quo enough?

This has been discussed many times before
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i say unit is better than seperate.
south korea is being watched by american military because the 2 koreas are seperated.

would u like the americans to move their asses? then unite!

To unite would be an ideal. But with it comes a heavy price tag. Germany had the strongest economy in europe when they unified. It nearly bankrupted the economy. They are still trying to dig out of the debt it caused. I think it was good for both Germanys to finally put the past behind them. There is 1 difference tho. There was no war fought between east and west Germany. Their seperation was the result of the allied powers breaking them up.

unification...in a peaceful way...

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i believe in the peaceful and democratic reunification of the korean peninsula and i am highly thankful for chinese or any non korean who also support this.

That's why you want reunification? Paranoia and xenophobia make for an awful lot of wasted energy. Besides, all this negativity only hurts you in the end. Maybe you should concentrate instead on the fact that reunification will bring an end to the despotic North Korean regime.

Well, I wouldn't say just one (besides, East and West Germany were at the front lines of the Cold War.)

North Korea has relatively no economy that we can speak of while East Germany was a major industrial powerhouse. And let's not forget the years of famine and brainwashing that North Koreans have been subjected to.

There were also relatively few sociological and linguistic differences between East and West Germany, which is more than we can say about North and South Korea. Former East Germans could find jobs with a certain amount of ease all over Germany after reunification. I doubt that will be the case of North Koreans coming to South Korea after reunification.

I think North Koreans will form a large pool of unskilled, extremely cheap labor that can be exploited by South Korean companies. North Korean women will be highly desired for marriage as SK men will perceive them as submissive and easy to please with material goods.

If that's the case, then it's a recipe for a second civil war. The South Korean government's plan to develop the North before reunification might not be such a bad idea after all.

North Korea's independent industrialization is of utmost importance, and for that to happen, it will have to make necessary changes for the economic sanctions to be lifted. In other words, it should stop being a whore of China and get its acts together.

In my opinion, replacing Kim Jong Il as a leader with someone who isn't remotely related to him seems to be one of the crucial changes that you speak of.

How long do you figure North Korea can go on as it is doing now? According to what someone posted in another thread, some experts say 3 years tops.

^^Yes, but experts made the same prediction 12 years ago after the nuclear crisis. I think it will just keep going on until one day it doesn't.

The longer reunification is delayed the greater the costs will be, both economically and in human terms. I wish that more was being done to achieve a peaceful unification but at the same time I don't know what more can be done.

we can't get impatient. and we definetely can't let another war start. that last war was devastating, and humiliating enough. with the new technology, we're gonna lost more people, and heritage sites

I support a United Korean race.

As an outsider, it's tough to see a people torn apart by ideologies that from what I gather were never historically divisive factors to begin with (communism vs. democracy). However, I don't think the South is either capable or willing to absorb the economic burden that would come with reunification. It sounds nice, but it would knock the Korean economy's di(k in the dirt.

Hopefully Both Koreas Can Unite. There will be a lot of obstacles to overcome but i would say its very possible not in this generation but next generations. Sucks i wont be alive

What's funny to me is how all of the free Korean people assume that the unified Korea will adopt their beliefs and standard of living, instead of the other way around. The only united Kroea that the North Korean people will accept is one that folows their own standards and practices.

Good luck with half the population and mere fraction of economic wealth, not to mentiong lacking competitive skill.

They will be absorbed, or they will be exploited. You think anything other than the world's most heavily fortified border can stop capitalists?

North Korea has one of the world's most untapped precious natural resources in the world so unification in the future in inevitable. Plus NK has many skilled workers that will work for less wage that can industrialize the economy for the better.

democracy will be good in that if dprk koreans get discriminated against as a collective, and find life miserable, they can vote for a candidate that will dedicate themselves to some degree against that.

I do support the reunification of Korea. American get out of Asia !