Their eyes will be very open when they see the amount of food the south has.Defuser said:This,no point saving up if the people there ain't gonna open their eyes.
Heh. So the US won't stage a ground invasion, but that doesn't discount the possibility of another type of invasion. China is definitely to blame for this mess, but I would spread the blame to the States and bloody MacArthur as well. China will cock block until it feels the States isn't a threat.scorcho said:that's an outmoded Cold War view. there's little to gain with NK as a buffer state at this point considering the low possibility of the US staging a ground invasion into China.
Biggzy said:This is truly laughable and reeks of a publicity stunt in my opinion.
They are told and believe that the South is occupied by the US and is held hostage by the US's nuclear arsenal. This shouldn't be too hard to disprove I think.Defuser said:This,no point saving up if the people there ain't gonna open their eyes.
Kuro Madoushi said:Heh. So the US won't stage a ground invasion, but that doesn't discount the possibility of another type of invasion. China is definitely to blame for this mess, but I would spread the blame to the States and bloody MacArthur as well. China will cock block until it feels the States isn't a threat.
there's no threat - China's a nuclear power and could level Japan and Korea/SK in retaliation to any US first-strike. China's increasingly ruled by technocrats at this point, not the stodgy Communists from the days of yore. the calculation of having millions of refugees streaming across the border due to Kim Jong Il's idiocy is far greater than having a unified Korea in its place.Kuro Madoushi said:Heh. So the US won't stage a ground invasion, but that doesn't discount the possibility of another type of invasion. China is definitely to blame for this mess, but I would spread the blame to the States and bloody MacArthur as well. China will cock block until it feels the States isn't a threat.
I don't think you are truly appreciative of how much Koreans hate the Japanese.theinfinityissue said:I'm wondering what South Korea could possibly gain from this as well. Aside from the security concerns, are there any incentives to own that fucked up region or is this straight up altruism?
scorcho said:there's no threat - China's a nuclear power and could level Japan and Korea/SK in retaliation to any US first-strike. China's increasingly ruled by technocrats at this point, not the stodgy Communists from the days of yore. the calculation of having millions of refugees streaming across the border due to Kim Jong Il's idiocy is far greater than having a unified Korea in its place.
Biggzy said:This is truly laughable and reeks of a publicity stunt in my opinion.
Holy fuck where do you get your shit? This is totally wrong, they can't control Pyongyang anymore. It had potential to gain when it gave nukes to NK to sell to anti-American terrorist but now that economies are linked so much China nor the USA will start shut because their economies depend on each other. These days the North has been acting like an embarassment but China won't denounce them in fear of the North using a nuke on the continent and destabilizing the entire Asian economy.Kuro Madoushi said:Heh. So the US won't stage a ground invasion, but that doesn't discount the possibility of another type of invasion. China is definitely to blame for this mess, but I would spread the blame to the States and bloody MacArthur as well. China will cock block until it feels the States isn't a threat.
true, but the Cold War thinking would presuppose that this is even possible. it isn't anymore, especially with the symbiotic economic relationship between the two.Deku said:If it came to that, there would be no China left either. Now that's cold war thinking for you.
Zero Hero said:Who's going to be best Korea then?
heyf00L said:They are told and believe that the South is occupied by the US and is held hostage by the US's nuclear arsenal. This shouldn't be too hard to disprove I think.
Also, yeah, the food and cars and electricity and stuff might be compelling.
I'm kind of interested in the estimations they talk about since I almost decided to write my thesis about the Korean reunification.the minimum cost of unification estimated by external researchers, assuming it takes place within the next 20 years and is a peaceful transition
Seriously. They'll burn through that in a month or 2.X26 said:Calling $50B a lowball estimate is an unerstatement
pssh, im a korea reunification money expert, theyll need 2.820951 trillion to be preciseTacticalFox88 said:50 billion? That's a fucking lol if I ever seen one. 2 trillion dollars at least or this thing isn't happening at all.
Angry Fork said:Why? Isn't South Korea already way better on it's own without needing North?
Deku said:The North invaded the South, if MacArthur had his way, there would be a unified Korea.
Are you spinning your pro-China stuff again?
DiscoJer said:Maybe he just watched a lot of MASH? That pretty much consistently preached the North Koreans were the "good" guys.
Then again, look at Viet Nam. After about 10 years of communism, the rulers quietly ditched it in favor of something akin to China's system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_Moi
No? RTFP...Zoramon089 said:So they're giving Kim $50 billion to aim his tanks in some other direction for a while
Megadragon15 said:How much did it cost West Germany to reunite with East Germany? I can imagine it would take multiple times that amount to reunite North and South Korea.
thezerofire said:So wait is North Korea ok with this?
There is still a bit discrimination of people who were born in east germany. If Korea should ever reunite, the northern people would have to go through some tough shit.catfish said:it's called 'the right thing to do'
see germany for an example. A lot of people from the west said 'awww shit' the day the wall came down. Now they are the largest economy in Europe.
I mean, can South Korea just declare them reunited? Does it work like that?Guerrillas in the Mist said:It's not like they can trump it.
lolwutjustjohn said:They've got nothing in common.