Would you like for North and South Korea to unite?
Hello there, I am a native from South Korea. Currently many South Koreans 'don't want' the two Koreans to be unified because: 1. if it happens, South Korea's economy will GO DOWN<...........since North Korea is SUCH A POOR COUNTRY South Korea needs to spend BILLIONS of money to rebuild the North..(and to do this South Korean people need to work VERY HARD to help the North AND earn a living..) 2. At the moment unification through peace seems unlikely since North Korea keeps threatening to attack the South and the world... (REMEMBER, North Korea has its own nuclear weapon, which is why the United States doesn't attack North Korea..) 3. South Koreans HATE Kim Jong Il, the world's most evil dictator....so for unification to happen Kim Jong Il 'needs to die'. Now, reasons why North and South Korea NEED TO BE reunified: 1. Korea was divided by foreign countries, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The divison had nothing to do with the Korean race and many Korean families were seperated when it happened. 2. Korea used to be one nation that lived in peace until the war broke out in 1950 and destroyed everything...the culture, food, clothing and ideals of Korea need to be restored. 3. Reunified Korea will have a huge population, almost the same as the U.K.'s, Germany's and Japan's. Korea will become a global econoomic power with a lot of wealth and it would be a very great ecomonic and militarian friend of the United States like Japan and the U.K. 4. Korea will finally regain its true state as a peninsula in East Asia; South Korea at the moment is like an island between China and Japan because of isolated North Korea. So, for all I know, Korea NEEDS to be reunified in the near future. That's all I can think of at the moment. Hope that helps..
Is unification with North and South Korea even possible?
Unification of the two Koreas s not only possible it is inevitable. Korea is one nation; both north and South Korea share the same language and culture. Both peoples desire unification, and some day will achieve it. Having said that the time frame could be centuries. There are three basic unification scenarios- Status Quo-this assumes a gradual, negotiated unification. I believe the current leadership of North Korea would have to move on before this becomes a reality. System Collapse- either the north or South Korean nation collapses entirely from economic or other causes. Most people think this would more likely occur in the north. War-this is the worst case scenario and could happen so easily it’s really scary. For example what is North Korea accidentally let lose a nuke? Or if conditions in North Korea got so bad they figure the only way out is to start a war and then attempt to negotiate? This scenario proceeds to doomsday fairly quickly, but it can be assumed that only one government in Korea would survive. Some things that obstruct the two countries are as follows: Survival of the North Korean government-The current regime from the top down cannot unify and survive. Foreign influence-Some of the countries around it view a unified Korea as a threat. This is particularly true of Japan and china. Survival of the South Korean government-The cost of unification will challenge the ability of the South Korean ruling class to stay in power. A unified Korea would be an asian powerhouse directly rivaling Japan and china. Japan would have to compete with Korea for every market it needs to survive. China will not want a pro-us ally on its border. This will make both nations jittery and paranoid. As far as the us goes, well as near as I can tell no one in the us state department has put any thought into this. I mean it’s not like the United States would ever let any international situation slip away from them, is it? In summary no one is really sure how unification would affect the united states.
Why did North and South Korea split?
Japanese occupation of Korea ended after World War II in 1945. Then, Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union north of the 38th parallel and by the United States south of the 38th parallel. The United States suppressed an existing network of local Peoples Committees; meanwhile Cold War tensions rose. This led in 1948 to the establishment of two governments claiming to be the sole government of all of Korea: a communist North, and a United States-controlled South led by anti-communist Syngman Rhee. In June 1950, the North Korean Peoples Army attacked, launching the Korean War. The United States-backed South and the Chinese-backed North eventually reached a stalemate. In 1953 they signed a ceasefire, splitting the peninsula along a demilitarised zone along the 38th parallel.
Should the United Nations (especially the United States) begin to more openly support the one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
I think the UN should leave Israel alone. The League of Nations settled the issue of “Palestine” back in 1922 when it designated eastern Palestine as an Arab entity, today called the Kingdom of Jordan, and western Palestine as the “Jewish National Home” for the Jewish people to resettle and restore sovereign control over, and now called Israel and the liberated territories. The UN had no legal right 25 years later of intervening when the British chose to give up the Mandate after WWII. The UN should have told the Arab states that western Palestine was set aside for the Jews to resettle and if they attacked them, the UN would send an army to defend the Jewish National Home. Something like what the UN did a year later on with Korea, when North Korea attacked South Korea and the UN sent an army, which was over 80% American, to side with the South Koreans to drive out the communist forces of the North. Instead the UN tried to offer another compromise plan, UNGAR 181 to repartition western Palestine yet again. But the Arabs rejected that as well, and attacked anyway,. So now the UN should tell all the Arabs that it is all Jewish territory west of the Jordan river, and how the Jews and Arabs choose to live together is their business and not that of the UN at all. In brief, the UN should take no position whatsoever on what should have been settled law in 1922.