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Would reunification of the Korean peninsula be a net positive for the US?
Considering Washington's desire for regime change and Seoul's desire for stability, should the next president attempt to leverage a transition of power in Pyongyang to reunify the peninsula?
Would the possible geopolitical benefit outweigh the economic challenges caused by reunification?
What do you think?
But the job market in South Korea is already so competitive, I believe the post-secondary education expansion under Roh has created a college graduation rate mirroring the high school graduation rate... drastically reducing the value of a college degree not obtained in the premier universities or the West.
What would happen to these "mid-kids"? Moreover, what would happen to manufacturing, would it not be reasonable to assume that it would migrate north en masse? Obviously I don't have the answer, I'm simply curious. In my experience, the 1997 IMF crisis remains very much a recent memory.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Definitely a positive effect since US and Japan will not need to spend resources on missile shield.
Economic costs will be low, in fact cheap labor will benefit South Korea, and western goods will benefit North Korean people. Look at how nicely the reunification worked in Germany.