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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I'm guessing the integration would be difficult. There are still tensions in East/West Germany
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When East & West Germany reunited, the West German GDP per capita was about 3 or 4 times that of East Germany.
South Korea has a per capita GDP 20 times that of North Korea... the disparity in wealth, education, infrastructure is staggering. Reuniting the Koreas would be like 17 million Bangladeshis immigrating to Canada due to climate change.
It wouldn't surprise me if the majority of South Koreans would prefer a couple of generations of a Chinese puppet government in Pyongyang to reduce the disparity in wealth, education, infrastructure to the level of East & West Germany.