I will disagree Well you can't cross the DMZ because people will die because off landmines. They would tp travel through ships and planes which would damage Alot of south korea airlines economy.
I am currently rewatching Crashlanding on You. I am aware that it is romantized, but the small North Korean group of soldiers ended up being my favourite side characters ever. I love their (re)actions. In the end we are all human.
RU-vid User3937 Well, he didn’t show up to an important event. An event that marks the anniversary of the foundation of North Korea. North Korean leaders don’t miss stuff like that unless they have to
The "unification" of West and East Germany was rather an annexation. The economy and industry that could have competed with the Western companies was simply wound up, plundered and flattened. Also the socio-political advantages and achievements that the East had were simply ignored in the typical Western arrogance and also flattened. With regard to North Korea, however, the question is what advantages and achievements this state should have over the South. The few news and reports that leak out of the country paint a bleak picture. Human experiments on prisoners, famines, an indoctrinated and strongly suppressed population, operations without anesthesia, etc. etc.
PaPa Told Me Too without a leader North Korea would collapse because everyone would fight each other for the spot as the new leader because they don’t have voting
OK, so a few things to consider: 1. They would never keep the nukes. 2. A United Korea would not have the largest standing military in the world, because the reasoning behind both countries' vast militaries are due to a fear of the other. If such a fear was eliminated due to reunification, conscription laws would be eased. In addition, the North Korean military would not just up and join the South Korean one. That's not how it works. 3. The Korean taxpayer likely wouldn't actually be suffering too much. As Korea would try to remain neutral, China, Japan, and the US would pour in economic investments and infrastructure projects into the north to try and gain the good graces of the new powerful Korea. Edit: Octato92, thanks for that piece of info: Yes, it is likely at the date of reunification, the united Korean military would be the largest standing in the world. However, it would be gradually downscaled, so the military might of both Koreas combined is not really a positive attribute that a united Korea would possess permanently.
The ultimate pro gamer move is if the military commits a coup against Kim and rapidly deploys all of their troops to the northern border. That way they could retain power by defending against china and Korea gets to reunite.
@@MadMan3498 Not exactly. With information about the foreign world dumped into North Korea, many of its soldiers would likely turn against its own country for a better life for themselves
If the 2 Koreas are unified, the North Koreans can finally have a better life and this unification will be an important, if not the most important event in the history of the Korean Peninsula.
@PATTON The only thing India is a superpower in and will ever be is tech support scamming lol oh and China is not jealous of India, their economy is way better and their army is better
@Vincent Elfel because a unified Korea would be a military and economic powerhouse and disrupt the region. South Korea is already one of the worlds top economies, combined with North Korea’s land, resources, and population for labor and you have huge opportunities for growth. I think back in the 19th or early 20th century, I read a quote that Japan felt the need to conquer Korea as soon as possible because it was like a dagger aimed at the heart of Japan, which makes sense geographically.
No this is changing... View in Japan is pro unification. China low key wants a unification... But not a violent one. N.korea is too unstable and presents a nuclear threat in its current state which can implode the whole region, with aftermath of 25 million refugees, that will be like vietnam in 70s all over again. Also US influence in Asia is not what it used to be. If USA imposes sanctions on any East Asian country like it does to Iran, it will have not much effect because you can always turn to China for trade
United Korea is difficult. China and Russia dont want to lose North Korea as their geographical base, and Japan dont hope it because United Korea can be her strong rival. Moreover, some Koreans disagree with the unification.
@@akasg06 Hirohito was emperor up until his death in 1989. What is actually wrong with this is that Hirohito didn't conquer Korea. It was Emperor Meiji.
Although the Chinese government has ostensibly supported the reunification of Korea, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean peninsula and the denuclearization of the peninsula are real preconditions for China to agree to the reunification of Korea. In the past, the Korean peninsula had nothing to do with China, and China had no choice but to do so .
@@pamirojopmrj7427 Although the Chinese government has ostensibly supported the reunification of Korea, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean peninsula and the denuclearization of the peninsula are real preconditions for China to agree to the reunification of Korea. In the past, the Korean peninsula had nothing to do with China, and China had no choice but to do so .
@@joohunkang5030 The Korean war was a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet union. The flames of war came within China's borders, depriving China of the opportunity to reunify itself. China has objectively bought a period of peace, but it is also a victim.
@@joohunkang5030 South Korea and China are in a similar situation. Although the country is divided and the military sovereignty loses, but objectively obtained the economic assistance of the United States.
Meanwhile every citizen of Taiwan (Republic of China) have always thought China (People's republic of China) is a foreign country. China/Taiwan is just another cold war story, same as north/south korea, with a reversed power balance.
@@hallowwin2721 But Taiwan is not even bordered With China. Plus Taiwan don't want to be part of China cause while Taiwan is one of the most happy well respected country in the world. China is a communism that the world will never respect them for all the dark shady things they have done. WHO in their mind would even be happy to be Chinese apart from those brainwashed maggots themselves. 🤫
In South Korea, there is an organization that studies various scenarios in preparation for unification. Just as South Korea controls the coronavirus well, they will be overcome one day after reunification.
As an university student who had worked as a student reporter in the ministry of unification in South Korea, your positive prediction makes my heart warm. To come true the prediction, I would study hard to make two Koreas one Korea again, which, in my hope, will have good effects on the other countries.
If borders open & transfer of technology flows around, it would bring N koreans to same economic & social level. They speak same language, so unification is natural.
I'm saying this now. As a Korean myself that has lived in America almost my entire life, I 100% believe Korea deserves to be reunited. While, I do think that North Korea as a political entity, and a cultural time capsule is very interesting, I just can't help but want the Koreas to be one. It isn't fair that the peninsula has suffered for almost 70 years now, and it's just constantly being manipulated by the greater world powers. I know that reunification would create bad blood and that the millions of soldiers and land mines and such would be disastrous. I know that neither of the Superpowers would be okay with it. I don't care. I just want these people that have endured so much through history to get a break...
@The virtuous man And you think China would be the same? I do not like a lot of what America has done, believe me my country has suffered a lot through them when they occupied the Philippines and their brutality towards the natives back in the late early 20th century but they are way, way better than what China would offer. Hell at least you could make protests about in America and how its policies are being run but not in China as they would more silence any criticism or do much worse .
@The virtuous man not us citizen or Chinese but china just fucked up the entire world trying to cover up the coronavirus to maintain their illusion of a perfect country, so I disagree. also not to mention the billions of corrupt Chinese money taking over real estate everywhere yeah they definitely fucking up the entire world. USA isn't perfect take a look at how fucked up and divided their county is right now politically and more deaths from covid but I still prefer this over the ccp anyday
The virtuous man lol no the u.s. is not even following there own orders and laws if it was the nation would only be doing stuff even the north American continent as it is in there founding laws to govern not to get involved in any non continental wars.
I don't understand this logic... Korea has been a united country (also tributary to China) for centuries, they would be Ok with it. Honestly it's better than having an unstable barking dog (who just happen to have nukes) at your doorstep.
I pray one day korea would be reunited into one country 🙏🏾 The reunited korea would be a blessing to north korea cause the population is suffering under extreme poverty, repressive regime and depression 😭😔! Greetings from zambia 🇿🇲👋🏾😊
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Not sure about this math. By itself, South Korea is the 12th largest economy, and North Korea the 112th...but with a theoretical unification the unified Korea could surge to the worlds 3rd largest economy? How does that compute? What exactly will N Korea add to the equation, even after years of unification?
분단으로 인해 가장 안타까운 것은 바로 이산가족분들... 가족들이랑 수십년을 서로 보지도 못하고..ㅠㅠ The saddest thing is separated families. They can't meet their families for decades even if they want to...
Stef If he had a surgery in the NK I’m not surprised. Also, he is a strong smoker and his father and grandfather died to heart problems. Maybe a new Kim is going to lead North Korea......
What would be more interesting is speculating on what would happen if the regime in the North collapses, leading to a reunification managed by the government of the South. That's the only way this scenario is actually going to happen.
Honestly agreed. North Korea's government would never voluntarily unify -- it would almost absolutely require total collapse to do so. That, or a revolution/coup, which has a _very_ slim chance of happening anyway.
"managed by the government of the South" China may not allow that. South Korea is too allied with the US and they wouldnt want a US ally controlling what's happening on their border. China could realistically invade/annex the north, just like they did in the 50s, to prevent the expansion of Western influence up to its border.
@@Cole-ek7fh I hate China so much.... especially after this pandemic thing.... someone needs to put them in their place and make them unable to have any chance for impact to the others..... im furious with them. im just hoping this pandemic with time will weaken China so much, (if many countries sue them and ask them for trillions of money like US does) that after 10 years let's say they will be in such a bad economical state that they wouldn't be able to influence anyone!!! and countries around them can breathe at last...
@@YAH2121 "South Korea is too allied with the US" Not necessarily; the ROK US Alliance was established to protect South Korea from North Korea. With NK gone, the US would have no more reason to send US troops to SK, and SK would have no more reason to keep them there. A United ROK would have no more reason to uphold the ROK-US Alliance, send US troops packing and move closer to China (or at the very least, declare neutrality between the US and China.)
I just read an article which said that Koreans are the most successful middle size ethic after WWII. With the military from north and economy from south, United Korea might become a world-level country.
Lol not just samsung. . The technology level is already superior in many other subjects. One of which is the ship-building industry, which most of you not know, and which korea already has a lot of first-to-invent title, with a lot of companies supporting the industry such as DSME and Hyundai shipbuilding/hardware industry.
Umm when like your twin sister is communist has couple of nukes, bullies you all the time, does not listen to anyone else but China and into worshipping crazy idol for 3 generations and all your friends dont like her.
To be honest for Korea is not even that bad it has 40% debt to gdp and 1.6 trillions of gdp. A 1 trillion expense in 10 years would not be that much and even if it got to debt to gdp of 90% has a developed country would be ok. I think the biggest problem would be more of a cultural one since north is so poor that the cultural diferente would be insane.
@@XxInfamousXxBR Germany showed that there are bigger problems than you might expect. We kinda fucked it up big time and even 30 years later we still have unification problems
U should understand that the speed of development done by south korea is unmatched by german reunification development, SK has proven many time they can do development much faster and cheaper than any other even compare to chinese.
Investment guru Jim Rogers says he'd put all of his money if both Koreas reunified. Yes, bringing up the North to modern standards would be a staggering task but the South would use its development know-how and experience to see incredible growth rates.
@Brett Hou I totally agree with you. Britain split China and Hong Kong, India and Pakistan, Ireland and northern Ireland, Argentina and the Falkland islands and went to war with America , Canada, France, Spain, Germany, etc. The whole world hates them.
No decent person can like the British. They wreaked havoc all around the world and refuse to apologize. And they still make movies featuring themselves as the savior of the world, just because they fought against Hitler. The British were no better than Hitler for the most part of the past few centuries.
@@tommartin1414 Ireland is too small compared to Korea If Korea were placed off the Western Europe, It can stretch all the way from London to Barcelona. Korea is much bigger than Belgium and Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Taiwan, Israel '''all put together''' and is also even bigger than Britain Island. Also Korea have a number of advantages: - It is located in the Goldilocks Zone between 35 to 45th parallel north of East Asia. - the top quality arable lands. - permeated by loads of rivers. - much bigger than Belgium and Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Taiwan, Israel all put together - an ideal location in the world for trade. - hardly happend(earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons) by big natural disasters unlike Japan. - the ten largest economies by GDP also seventh largest economies among developed countries. - a single country almost beats up the entire Eastern Europe economies. - never conquered by European Imperialism.
January: WW3 February: COVID 19 Outbreak Pandemic March: Lockdown/Quarantine April: Kim Jong Un Dying and Bernie dropout of the presidential election 2020
Please read this article. I'm a Korean. People in the West need to realize that not all Asians are Chinese and that there are places where Chinese is not spoken. Of course, because China has a large population, when you see an Asian person, you may think they are Chinese. However, people from North and South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, and Southeast Asia are not Chinese. In particular, neighboring countries are having a hard time due to the Chinese's unique Sinocentrism ideology, which views China as the center of everything and all surrounding countries as barbarians. It is very rude to ask these people if they are Chinese. In Korean history, China and Korea, which were wary of northern peoples such as the Huns, Mongols, and Manchurians, had no choice but to have special exchanges for a long time. However, China has never directly ruled the Korean Peninsula, and Korea and China have different languages and cultures. Our ancestors on the Korean Peninsula started in the eastern part of Liaohe River in Manchuria, and that land was occupied by the northern peoples and the Han Chinese, and is still experiencing historical distortion. Mongolia is also suffering from China more severely than Korea in this matter. Rather, the North and South of the Korean Peninsula are people with similar language and culture, the same ancestors, and the same history. And you must know that China is actually a land conquered and conquered by foreigners and Han Chinese. In particular, the Mongols who founded the Yuan Dynasty were born in independent Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, and the Manchurians who founded the Qing Dynasty were born in Manchuria, the region of present-day northeastern China. They did not belong to the Hanseatic culture, spoke Manchu and Mongolian separately, and established a state by overthrowing the Chinese Han Dynasty. They were not originally Chinese and their language was different. In particular, the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty and the Manchurians of the Qing Dynasty were foreigners, and the land they lived in was not originally Chinese land, but as the foreign nationalities converted and assimilated into the Han Chinese, that land became Chinese land. There is a record of China's first Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai saying that the Liaodong land in Manchuria, now part of Northeast China, was originally the land of our ancestors on the Korean Peninsula, but we just took it over.
They could make an agreement to gradually move the border north by maybe 20 miles per year. That would allow a orderly integration of North Koreans without overwhelming the South.
This is actually pretty precise analysis. I'm impressed. Especially the part about political concern between China and the US. Reunification will be really tough project even if Koreans get the chance at all.
한들 yes ,Korea economy is very powerful,but I think Korea should get more independence,if Korea peninsula fulfill unification ，US army should withdraw from Korea,Korea is not like japan,Japanese lose wwii,
@@tjq1888 If China can assure us that it won't seek to restore the pre-modern relationship between China and Korea as suzerain and tributary, and if China ceases to manipulate history through 東北工程 and forfeit their false claim on our history of Goguryeo and Balhae, then we Koreans will have no reason to support US military presence in the Korean peninsula once N.Korean threat is gone. But most Koreans think that China wants domination, not peaceful co-existence, which is why we're extremely wary of Chinese influence that seek to get rid of US troops in Korea. We think of it as a groundwork of the Chinese trying to dominate us once again.
the gdp gap between Brazil, Canada, Russia and Korea is so minimal like the UK and France so the ranking doesn't show the exact numbers. But currently, Korea's gdp ranking is 12th on the list.
@Jacob Worship? It's economical interest. Also, in the near future, most Americans will not even be white lmao. In China, racism is even stronger. Black people are not even allowed to go to shopping malls and McDonalds. The US isn't perfect, but the civil rights movement of the 60s made a lot of progress. Also Barack Obama became president and hopefully we will have the first asian american presideng with my boi Andrew Yang.
This is Korean's ultimate dream. But also wish happen later, because of the cost. In order to develop North Korea to same level as South Korea... Well it is going to be very expensive.
Seungsu Han, lol. Capitalists always have places for low paid workers. It’s more likely that north Koreans will replace the south ones. Because high payment for workers is an unacceptable spending for capitalists)
Seungsu Han, not anywhere, and not for every type of job. But mostly. In almost every poor country that politics consider as “developing”. We call them developing, but by the fact they have too low economic growth for their level and have to devalue their currencies against dollar for stimulating the export, which leads to a stagnation of the payment
Seungsu Han lol you are fully wrong. Do u know that coronavirus spreaded rapidly cause of Low paid chinese workers around the world? They came their homelands during christmas then back to work. Capitalism is useless ideology around world. The capitalism based on selling high technology to 3rd world countries or colonising them by economic way. The USA can afford the all of US people's wealth but you can see US people's situation.
@@erickim1910 I mean kinda but chemical weapons are meant to be a more of a immediate effect, while biological is a slower burn effect to spread the most Plus chemical weapons are way easier to make than biological weapons. One is just well chemicals and the other are living beings that can go though evolution.
@Ko Ko Usually there is little point in going beyond the generic warning symbol for toxic substances which of course includes chemical weapons. A more specific warning symbol does exist, but it's nowhere near as readily recognised.
if unification becomes in reality, korea will replace france and uk as top 5 nations in terms of defense, economy and politics. tech and capital of sk combined with cheap labor and natural resource of nk make things so easier for them. when goldman sachs issued the report that korea will be g5 in 2050, they didn't joke. the unified korea would make it faster.
@@G1AGAIN Japan would face even fiercer competitions from the high tech sector of a united Korea and south Korea would gain a large amount of natural resources and manpower from north korea, Japan's influence in east asia would greatly diminish. A united Korea is like when German united, no one in Europe wanted it but Soviet and the US supported it, so it happened, but in the case of Korea not even russia and the US would want it.
Technically isn’t there other countries which have split but it’s a lot less tension and the names have changed completely. E.g. would it be easy for India, Bangladesh and Pakistan to reform into one country? Since the partition was originally made by the British
