>Is there a reason for this planning? Is this government or private enterprise? Maybe this is the south sending a signal to the north? Or private enterprise in the south with government backing? I swear Korean politics is more confusing than the east-west Cold War.
The South Korean government expects the North to collapse at some point. North Korea only survives as a country because the Chinese give them oil and other countries give them food periodically. Nearly 100% of the country's economic output goes to the maintenance of the state.
>Reunification went well in Germany. Although even now there are vast differences between the east and west, the east is fully integrated. Think of it as the poor southern US vs the east coast.
That's ridiculous. Germany is a very wealthy country and it paid a huge price to reintegrate the East. A process that's not complete, by the way.
South Korea is not as wealthy as West Germany was, and North Korea is far worse off than East Germany. Reunification will break the South, economically.
The South Korean government expects the North to collapse at some point. North Korea only survives as a country because the Chinese give them oil and other countries give them food periodically. Nearly 100% of the country's economic output goes to the maintenance of the state.
>Reunification went well in Germany. Although even now there are vast differences between the east and west, the east is fully integrated. Think of it as the poor southern US vs the east coast.
That's ridiculous. Germany is a very wealthy country and it paid a huge price to reintegrate the East. A process that's not complete, by the way.
South Korea is not as wealthy as West Germany was, and North Korea is far worse off than East Germany. Reunification will break the South, economically.