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Indeed...

AussieLad: That is a great question - I do not have a solid opinion but would tend to lean towards "re-unification" even if other countries had to "chip-in" huge amounts of cash to keep the North Koreans from immediately "leaving home" and heading south to an immediate taste of freedom and capitalism.
Hungry people are VERY motivated.
I still want to know if kim jong un is alive or dead - media blackout on this topic - I don't know why?
Hope all is well "down-under".
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

The olderest generation still has friends and family across the DMZ. The younger ones don't know their northern families and have no friends up there. All they know is that they will likely be taxed out of existence trying to pay for them.

All is going well here in Oz, thanks VarmintGuy.

I can see a lot of desire to reunify, and appreciate the magnitude of a moment like that, SHOULD it occur, given the historical context of the peninsula.

I also could see a global financial support being a likely consideration, again IF reunification was to miraculously occur given all likely barriers that would just as assuredly prevent it.

Part of me wonders though, that with the COVID19 outbreak, lots of countries econonies have taken a pounding, and even foreign aid might be hard to come by as countries are busy propping up their own damaged industries.

Perhaps the timing of the possible loss of NK's leadership isn't conducive to it happening, but ironically, the viral outbreak that is creating global financial pressures, MAY also be a contributing factor to the demise of said leadership.

I watch with great interest.

Thanks all for the responses, certainly food for thought from both sides of the coin.

I question that...China won't allow it...

Doubt if they want South Korean freedoms right on their border...

Simple....cheap labor...
Walmart will be full of made in North Korea crap...bank on it...

I think the south would want to reunify. It's the chinese and the entrenched corrupt communist upper class of the north that would oppose it. Corrupt communist know that life would be much harder for them in a free and open society. China wouldn't want South Korea having the ability to grow their industrial base the way they could and would need to.

Bb

The Norks will do whatever China wants or allows them to do

I had some minor dealings with a young east German fellow last year at work...he was a full blown commie piece of fucking filth. One of a very few people I would gladly watch being shot in the back of the head.

The key to power is the military. To rule N Korea you need the backing of the military wether by compromising the military leaders or purging your supporters to the top. What was it Mao said? Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. That's what to watch, could be interesting.

North Korea is one big pain in the ass to China. Reunification would relieve them of the burden of supporting the North, both economically and politically. And possibly give them entree to the South through their sympathizers in the North.

And they elect a Communist like Angela Merkel to lead their unified country.

I would say that under any other circumstances reunification would save SK a huge amount on defense, but in this case I think it would just move the heavily defended border north by a few hundred miles. I will say it would change the game for China, they would loose there buffer and have the ROK army on their border. My experience is somewhat dated (1980s) but the ROK army was a serious force in those days.