North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries.
I read a long time ago that German reunification was possible because the division was 2 generations long. They hypothesized that when you get to 3+ generations long it would be extremely difficult, which is where Korea is.
Yeah. At the start, it was friends and family members.
Decades later, it was uncles and grandparents.
Nowadays, it’s basically refugees who speak the same language, but a different accent…and are VERY culturally different.
Good luck convincing a developed nation to accept 26 million refugees overnight, who are likely undernourished and undereducated. In exchange, you get 120K KM of land which might be resource-wealthy, but then you also have to be mindful that there might be terrorists who oppose the government.
Reunification sounded great decades ago. It still sounds great on paper in a best case scenario (aka. fantasy land). Even if it’s “the right thing to do”, though, it’s not going to be easy.
Yeah people only saw the treats West germany had but not the shameless exploitation needed to acquire them. They didn’t know what actual life under capitalism was like. After reunification the mass layoffs and wholesale of entire industries came as a big shock, some people genuinely thought the state could just provide them with a different job if the capitalists fired them. A lot of women were shocked to find out how much gender equality was lagging behind what they previously had had.
I read a long time ago that German reunification was possible because the division was 2 generations long. They hypothesized that when you get to 3+ generations long it would be extremely difficult, which is where Korea is.
Yeah. At the start, it was friends and family members.
Decades later, it was uncles and grandparents.
Nowadays, it’s basically refugees who speak the same language, but a different accent…and are VERY culturally different.
Good luck convincing a developed nation to accept 26 million refugees overnight, who are likely undernourished and undereducated. In exchange, you get 120K KM of land which might be resource-wealthy, but then you also have to be mindful that there might be terrorists who oppose the government.
Reunification sounded great decades ago. It still sounds great on paper in a best case scenario (aka. fantasy land). Even if it’s “the right thing to do”, though, it’s not going to be easy.
Yeah people only saw the treats West germany had but not the shameless exploitation needed to acquire them. They didn’t know what actual life under capitalism was like. After reunification the mass layoffs and wholesale of entire industries came as a big shock, some people genuinely thought the state could just provide them with a different job if the capitalists fired them. A lot of women were shocked to find out how much gender equality was lagging behind what they previously had had.
Lol