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Blood is thicker than water
The divided Korean peninsula and a divided China across the Taiwan Strait are both vestiges of the Cold War. I would be surprised if both of these unsettled issues from the Cold War are not resolved within 50 years.
It is ironic that Vietnam was unified during the Cold War, but it resulted in a poor nation. On the other hand, China, Taiwan, and South Korea are growing richer year after year. Shanghai, Taipei, and Seoul are examples of the growing wealth.
The North Koreans have no one to blame except themselves. They chose to isolate themselves from the world in the tradition of the Hermit Kingdom. However, I expect the North Koreans to catch-up quickly to the modern world after they choose to open up their country. China (e.g. North Korea's benefactor) and South Korea (e.g. fellow Koreans) will both help North Korea to modernize.
Whether it is a reunified America after the Civil War, reunified Vietnam, or reunified Germany, history has shown that it is difficult to keep a people separate for very long. China and Taiwan will reunify when the U.S. relents in its objection, China's relative power to the U.S. passes a critical point, or China simply gets tired of waiting and calls the American bluff to defend Taiwan by triggering a military crisis in October 2049 (e.g. 100th anniversary of New China).
The Koreans can reunify whenever the North Koreans stop being paranoid (or the South Koreans offer the ruling Kim Jong-Il's family a sufficiently sweet deal with guarantees) and South Korea is willing to pay the majority of the massive cost (e.g. on the order of a trillion dollars; approximately the cost for German reunification) for rebuilding North Korea.
You are absolutely correct. Regardless of an imaginary line on a map, Koreans are Koreans and Hans are Hans. For example, the Hans in Hong Kong returned to the motherland in 1997 under the "one country, two systems" 50-year agreement.GeoffreyRoyanGJ said:Its sort of like Koreans right[?] a geographical and Ideological boundary separates other wise they one and the same, right?? or have i got some thing wrong??
The divided Korean peninsula and a divided China across the Taiwan Strait are both vestiges of the Cold War. I would be surprised if both of these unsettled issues from the Cold War are not resolved within 50 years.
It is ironic that Vietnam was unified during the Cold War, but it resulted in a poor nation. On the other hand, China, Taiwan, and South Korea are growing richer year after year. Shanghai, Taipei, and Seoul are examples of the growing wealth.
The North Koreans have no one to blame except themselves. They chose to isolate themselves from the world in the tradition of the Hermit Kingdom. However, I expect the North Koreans to catch-up quickly to the modern world after they choose to open up their country. China (e.g. North Korea's benefactor) and South Korea (e.g. fellow Koreans) will both help North Korea to modernize.
Whether it is a reunified America after the Civil War, reunified Vietnam, or reunified Germany, history has shown that it is difficult to keep a people separate for very long. China and Taiwan will reunify when the U.S. relents in its objection, China's relative power to the U.S. passes a critical point, or China simply gets tired of waiting and calls the American bluff to defend Taiwan by triggering a military crisis in October 2049 (e.g. 100th anniversary of New China).
The Koreans can reunify whenever the North Koreans stop being paranoid (or the South Koreans offer the ruling Kim Jong-Il's family a sufficiently sweet deal with guarantees) and South Korea is willing to pay the majority of the massive cost (e.g. on the order of a trillion dollars; approximately the cost for German reunification) for rebuilding North Korea.