I read a long time ago that German reunification was possible because the division was 2 generations long. They hypothesized that when you get to 3+ generations long it would be extremely difficult, which is where Korea is.
Yeah. At the start, it was friends and family members.
Decades later, it was uncles and grandparents.
Nowadays, it’s basically refugees who speak the same language, but a different accent…and are VERY culturally different.
Good luck convincing a developed nation to accept 26 million refugees overnight, who are likely undernourished and undereducated. In exchange, you get 120K KM of land which might be resource-wealthy, but then you also have to be mindful that there might be terrorists who oppose the government.
Reunification sounded great decades ago. It still sounds great on paper in a best case scenario (aka. fantasy land). Even if it’s “the right thing to do”, though, it’s not going to be easy.
Yeah people only saw the treats West germany had but not the shameless exploitation needed to acquire them. They didn’t know what actual life under capitalism was like. After reunification the mass layoffs and wholesale of entire industries came as a big shock, some people genuinely thought the state could just provide them with a different job if the capitalists fired them. A lot of women were shocked to find out how much gender equality was lagging behind what they previously had had.
Here the full address:
Notable bits:
Today the Supreme People’s Assembly newly legalized the policy of our Republic toward the south on the basis of putting an end to the nearly 80 year-long history of inter-Korean relations and recognizing the two states both existing in the Korean peninsula.
As solemnly clarified at the 2023 December Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee, our Party, government and people had shown great magnanimity and tireless patience and made sincere efforts always with the view that those of the ROK are still the fellow countrymen and compatriots in the long period of history and even discussed with them the great cause of national reunification in a candid manner.
But it is the final conclusion drawn from the bitter history of the inter-Korean relations that we cannot go along the road of national restoration and reunification together with the ROK clan that adopted as its state policy the all-out confrontation with our Republic, dreaming of the “collapse of our government” and “unification by absorption,” and lost compatriotic consciousness, getting more vicious and arrogant in the madcap confrontational racket.
The north-south relations have been completely fixed into the relations between two states hostile to each other and the relations between two belligerent states, not the consanguineous or homogeneous ones any more. This is the present situation of the relations between the north and the south today caused by the heinous and self-destructive confrontational maneuvers of the ROK, a group of outsiders’ top-class stooges, and the true picture of the Korean peninsula just unveiled before the world.
I have already recalled at the recent plenary meeting that the so-called constitution of the ROK openly stipulates that “the territory of the ROK covers the Korean peninsula and its attached islands”.
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There is no provision specifying such definition in the existing constitution of our country. Since our Republic definitely defined the ROK as a foreign country and the most hostile state after completely eliminating the original concept contradictory to reality that the ROK is the partner for reconciliation and reunification and the fellow countrymen, it is necessary to take legal steps to legitimately and correctly define the territorial sphere where the sovereignty of the DPRK as an independent socialist nation is exercised.
In my opinion, we can specify in our constitution the issue of completely occupying, subjugating and reclaiming the ROK and annex it as a part of the territory of our Republic in case of a war breaks out on the Korean peninsula.
And I think it is right to specify in the relevant paragraph of our constitution that such linguistic remnants misinterpreting the north and the south as fellow countrymen as “3 000-ri tapestry-like land” and “80 million compatriots” are not used in the political, ideological, mental and cultural life of our people, and that education should be intensified to instill into them the firm idea that ROK is their primary foe and invariable principal enemy.
For the present, we should take strict stepwise measures to thoroughly block all the channels of north-south communication along the border, including the one of physically and completely cutting off the railway tracks in our side, which existed as a symbol of north-south exchange and cooperation, to an irretrievable level.
We should also completely remove the eye-sore “Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification” standing at the southern gateway to the capital city of Pyongyang and take other measures so as to completely eliminate such concepts as “reunification”, “reconciliation” and “fellow countrymen” from the national history of our Republic.
If I was a dictator, I would grant immunity to my stylist so they can freely tell me what they think of my look and hair.
Come on, we don’t need to be bringing that shit over from reddit. EDIT: of course it’s a sh.ithead…
Licking that nk dictator boot
White people don’t die on the hill of racism challenge 2024 [IMPOSSIBLE]
It’s not racist to indicate a haircut is wack.
“But but please guys don’t make fun of him!!!”
Because the commenter didn’t want to stoop to ad hominems?
You lining up to defend a dictator too?
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*until the next food crisis
That’s really tragic, after all we surely all recognize the great strides he took toward uniting Korea! Of course most of them were strides towards Food Aid, but he needed to get his steps in anyway.
lol yes this was obvious a few decades ago … The years since were just propaganda time for the north and the south.
Good for the DPRK to cease tolerating Fail Korea and instead pursue more useful diplomacy. Closing the border to FK would allow the DPRK to focus its efforts elsewhere.
Fail Korea will always be a US puppet that would gladly separate the Korean people in service of imperialism and capitalism.
Juche is looking good in 2024.
