• South Korean train crosses DMZ into North Korea
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46395408
Huh I didn't know where were connected train lines between the two countries.
There was unity before wasn't there, why not. Thinking about it, there could even be buildings and underground tunnels connecting the two, who knows.
Reminder that North Korea still puts its people in camps and China's policies force tens of thousands of North Korean women into sex slavery
Baby steps
I'm pretty sure the long game is that South Korea slowly, forcibly modernize North Korea to mitigate refugee issues and to get the people used to a different way of life, basically slowly replacing the North Korean idea with the South Korean one. A gradual take over.
You mean tiny hands steps Just wait until Jong-Un’s future kid(s) will be more to abandoned most them in future as means continued the real road of subcontinental reunification.
A benevolent Supreme Leader would go a long way too, I was sort of holding out hope when he ascended to power that he would prove to be a more open figure. Still, I suppose he has been more open than his predecessors; it's just not what I would have hoped for. That being said, these things do take time. "Absolute" power isn't usually truly absolute, and there are still those who must be pleased.
That sucks. But still, we might see North Korea becoming less of a totalitarian shithole as time goes on, if not outright reunified with the South, and with no military involvement? Worth it, even if takes 50 years. That's countless lives saved, even if a generation into the future.
NK kind of reminds me of the Saudis. They both need major reform, and every now and then a story crops up indicating it might slowly be happening, but then they go and execute a dissident with a mortar or hang draw and quarter a journalist and you're reminded what a shithole it is.
I mean. As recent examples have shown, attempting to change shit overnight happens to transform these countries into wartorn hell holes with warbands, insurgents, terrorists, and other armed militia men running around like a bunch of headless chickens. A lot of people would love these places to become better. But the sad truth is that this shit takes time. Like its slow, but at least SOMETHING is being done.
I think reunification is a bad idea. A two state solution would work if the Kim Dynasty ceases to exist but reunification is an emotional solution
Why is it a bad idea? Genuine question. I think gradual reunification could work, given enough time.
A permanent two separate Koreas is an interesting idea, nothing inherently wrong with that. There are elements on both sides of the DMZ that do want reunification though. Outside of emotion, it is in the strategic interests of both parties to aim for a unified Korea; of course, neither is willing to simply roll over for the other side, for obvious reasons.
It doesn't make sense, really. The two Koreas are VERY different; those with family still separated by the DMZ are dying off day by day. South Koreans are radically different from North Koreans and North Korea would impose a MASSIVE financial burden on South Korea. A two state solution works best so that the South can offer aid to the North in as limited of a way as they want rather than absorbing all the poverty and cultural differences at once
Uh, last time i checked. A lot of Koreans actually want unification and mostly view the conflict between the North and South more of a thing between North Korea and The USA.
Source? Anybody who legit thinks that doesn't know anything about History. NK started that war. A lot of South Koreans actually don't know much about NK because they don't talk about it in school
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