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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
It would be a very tough integration. South Korea would need to find a way to feed all of these people and then create future infrastructure to do it. The North has done an effective job of wasting any good farmland and creating farmland where nothing can grow.
You also have a heavily indoctrinated people who are going to resist change,
It would be incredibly though for South Korea to handle that kind of refugee and infrastructure deficit.
However South Korea would get some amazing benefits upon Unification, they would be able to marry North Korea's mineral wealth to South Korea's industrial might.
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This is an interesting comparsion between the 2:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/data...korea-compared
Basically, you would be adding 30% more people that currently have 10% of the GDP of the country they would be integrating with. Plus many of them are malnourished and need medical help.
Complicating things even further is that the people of the North will be entitled to vote and other benefits. It would play havoc on South Korean politics.
I really think that North Korea needs to an internationally administered country until reunification would make it less drastic.
Also, I love this stat:
Total number of people sentenced to death:
North = 0; South =13
Total number of people executed:
North = 105, South = 0