Couldn't they just accept the current two-state solution and stop grousing about it?
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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Was reading a book about the history of the Three Tigers of Asia (Japan, China, Korea), and the author shared popularity posts about how SK doesn't even want unification anymore. It's been too long and the whole "splitting families" concept is no longer applicable.
You have to read between the lines a bit, but that's actually what Kim is doing here.
Look at it from the NK perspective. For 70 years, they've ostensibly wanted to "reunify" with the south, under the Kim regime. They've wanted to throw out foreign influence, eliminate the ROK government, and unite Korea under the DPRK flag.
In saying that reunification is impossible, Kim is effectively recognizing the south as a separate state.
I'm not really all that surprised. Unification would likely mean the existing North Korean political elite would be criminals at best or dead at worst.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm all for offering them cushy gilded cages to live out the rest of their lives. If that's what it takes to end the regime, then go for it.
It's not like there's a long list of would-be dictators who are emboldened by the idea that they might land a sweet western mansion one day. There are so many other factors in taking over a country's political system that this doesn't register.
An example, but I don't think East German leadership faced any consequences bar loss of power, after reunification.
Germany was never at war with itself and only kept apart by external states.
The only thing stopping Korea unification was a complete inability for either side to agree what unification would look like. Especially in the post-soviet world where Korea's greatest allies have always been at best tolerant of them.
He is starting strong for worst cunt of the year and he already won worst haircut, so it could be his year but competition is hard.
Who is also in competition for worst haircut 2024 (beside the orange man)?
Such a nasty lil' dumpling.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Yoon also condemned North Korea’s recent missile launch and live-fire exercises near the countries’ tense maritime border, warning that provocations would invite retaliation on a “multiplied scale”.
Kim’s speech marks a departure from decades of official policy that saw reconciliation and unification as the ultimate goal, despite frequent rises in tensions on the peninsula.
Some analysts believe that by classifying the South as its biggest adversary, the North could be attempting to justify the use of nuclear weapons in any future war.
Kim said a war would “decimate” South Korea and deal an “unimaginable” defeat to its biggest ally, the US, which has almost 30,000 troops stationed in the country, according to KCNA.
“In the event of war on the Korean peninsula, I think it is also important to reflect on the issue of completely occupying, suppressing, and reclaiming [South Korea] and incorporating it into the territory of our Republic,” Kim said.
At a meeting of the ruling Workers’ party late last year, Kim Jong-un described North and South Korea as “two states hostile to each other,” the Yonhap news agency said.
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Perfect. Now get China to leave Taiwan the fuck alone too. Seriously. Fetch is not going to happen.
You would think that now that NK has acquired nukes reunification would be even easier. but SK has been going further and further into the other direction.