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@RO1984
The only problem with 'finishing the job from 1950' is that by unifying Korea, you break Korea. When the wall came down in 1989, there was jubilation across Europe, except for a few select individuals who were reluctant to see it go, not for any irrational hatred towards Germans, but because they knew that now someone would have to try and knit together two countries that have a development gap of thirty to forty years between each other, together into some sort of cohesive manner.
Even today, twenty four years on, there is still a large gap in sociological well being between the people of West Germany and East Germany, the physical wall may have come down, but there's still a wall there, and it'll be that way for a few years to come.
If North and South Korea unite, it will be thousands of times worse, North Korea makes East Germany look like Coruscant. There will be millions of people putting a massive strain on a Korean economy which has already been hit by the global recession. It would probably collapse overnight and take most of Asia with it. So it would be somewhat of a pyrrhic victory, but would make for good 'Mission accomplished' headlines in Washington, admittedly, because they haven't got to pick up the pieces.
No, sadly for those who want it, a united Korea would be more trouble than it would be worth. The only way to bring the two together would be gradual steps towards economic, technological and social integration with assistance from both America and China. Not very likely to happen.
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