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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Maybe Germany is a better example. How has the reunification been there?
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East Germany was one of the most industrialized and technologically advanced portions of the old Soviet bloc and there were still huge problems with integrating the two societies. There are still huge transfer payments going from the western German provinces to support to the eastern German provinces.
Eastern Germany is still very under developed. Basically over $2trillion in transfer payments have occurred and the West hasn't gotten any better in the last 2 decades while the East has reaped most the benefits. It'll be on a much larger scale if the Koreas reunite... they don't even have basic infrastructure up North where the East Germans did.
Back on topic. North Korea threatens to nuke the South Tomorrow.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...acuate-South??