Resolving a sixty year old issue

To get some more Korean friends after that last post, I will now, for free, offer a solution to the problem with North Korea 조선민주주의인민공화국.

The huge problem with North Korea is not that it is difficult to get rid of. It might easily disappear overnight, if they suddenly realise that they are on the wrong track.

The huge problem is how to handle the reunification with the South. There are more than half as many inhabitants in the North as in the South, and the difference in development is much bigger than it ever was between East and West Germany. And East Germany's population was less than a third of the Western population. Besides almost all East Germans had West German television, so they knew what was going on elsewhere. The North Koreans do not have the privilege of access to foreign media. And in spite of those advantages, the reunification of Germany was fairly painful, and still now, 17 years later, there are big differences between the two parts of the country.

So how can Korea handle that kind of reunification successfully?

Easy. Don't reunify. Unify with another country!

Once the North Korean government falls, it can be incorporated into China, 中国, instead of South Korea. The level of development is closer, and with China's population of 1.3 billion inhabitants, it won't hurt much with just 23 million poor new citizens.

The North Koreans cannot complain, because they get access to a more developed country than their own. The South Koreans cannot complain, because they will not have to take care of their poor brethren. And the Chinese rarely seem to complain when they can grab some more territory.