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    The recent détente in relations between north and south Korea, and America, which will start with a North-South summit, probably followed by a summit at an as yet unnamed place between Marshall Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump has got many Koreans, and those in the wider community asking what would a unified Korea, if it were to happen, look like?

    The western viewpoint usually assumes a North Korean collapse, and therefore what is termed the “Germany model”, whereby the Republic of Korea would incorporate the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea into itself as one entity. Whilst this option ignores the vastly different economies and GDPs of the two countries, it also ignores another important fact, North Korean hasn’t collapsed, and its views on the reunification of the Korean peninsula are very different.

    Again, in the West, we assume that because of the Korean War the North’s idea is to unite the peninsula under communism and most probably by war, but in fact, in official policy at least, this has not been the case since as far back as the early 1970s.

    So, what is North Korea’s policy on reunification? In 1980 President Kim Il Sung set the policy to create a neutral, federal republic, where both sides would keep their political systems, and governments, but have a federal parliament and government. You’d assume they would also have a single ping-pong team. And the name of this unified country? The Democratic Confederal Republic of Koryo (DCRK), with Koryo being the traditional name of Korea.

    The Democratic part was later dropped from the name, and whilst the Confederal Republic of Koryo has not gained too much traction south of the border, many in the South do now favour something almost resembling a two-state, or federal solution, with Lee Myung-Bak suggesting a Korean Economic Community, which would have involved certain joint-areas, whilst both states kept their own sovereignty.

    Also, from the late 1990s the South had actually followed a “Sunshine Policy” which promoted increased cooperation with the view toward unification under a federal system of two autonomous governments, before finally creating one country under one government. And in 2000 the leaders of North and South actually did meet together.


    Not only that but cooperation in the form of the Mount Kumgang tourist region, which allowed South Koreans to visit the North, and the Kaesong industrial region, which gave businesses from the South the opportunity to invest in the North, were concrete attempts at real cooperation paving the way, if only the first short distance, of the road to unification. Issues were to plague the policy and the joint projects though, from the shooting of a South Korean tourist to a certain “Axis of Evil” speech.

    It is hard to say what the future might bring now, but at least with the upcoming summits, the current positive attitudes mean we can contemplate, from a Korean point of view, what reunification might look like, rather than what a nuclear war would look like.
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    I suspect it would be quite a powerful, wealthy state. The Koreans are an intelligent, industrious people. If they could make it work, they would be a powerhouse.

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    Probably North Korea would be like the pre Civil War South where slavery is accepted and South Korea would have successful manufacturers where slavery is outlawed.

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    There will probably be a 25-30 year transition period where painful changes would be made and North Korean society would have to adapt to a market economy and the South's industrial giants would begin investing and building factories in the North.

    But in the end, Korea would probably emerge a rather powerful country.

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    United Korea would be midpower/regional power like SK is now. But with more manpower and in long term potential for higher economy.
    If they keep nukes they would be a world power along with France and UK.

    Thinking with sanctions dropped, China, Russia, SK, and possible Japan and US trading it would recover fairly fast.
    Population shifts might happen (north and south) for industry, room, etc.

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    It would be a great thing, less dog munchers in the states.

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