China and South Korea are both quite uneasy about the prospect of the North Korean government collapsing. This is by both as a question of when not if as the economy and public support for the hereditary dictatorship in North Korea continues to decline. Unless the North Korean leadership makes some fundamental, and long opposed, changes the government control of the country will collapse. Both China and South Korea say they should take over but neither is enthusiastic about actually doing so. According to opinion surveys more South Koreans are agreeing with letting China take over up there. That’s because since the 1990s South Korean reunification planners have been studying what happened in Germany after the communist East Germany was absorbed by the democratic West Germany in the 1990s. That cost the West German taxpayers over two trillion dollars. Estimates of what it will cost South Koreans to absorb North Korea are now over five trillion dollars.
WNU Editor: I always shudder when I think of North Korea .... doubly so if that house of cards falls apart. But will China step in and impose order .... probably .... but very reluctantly. As for South Korea .... I can understand why they may not want to absorb a failed state like North Korea .... the cost would be a terrible burden for years. But in the end unification will probably occur .... and after a century the Kim family will be remembered as a historical footnote .... which is more than what they deserve.
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