S Korea proposes unification talks with N Korea

NK's regime doesn't want to lose power... And I sure as heck would not want to see any of NKs cronies be able to make it into any political position in a unified Korea. I'd love for unification to happen, but NK's most likely demand will be to have control over the Korean people.

Oh sure... NK wants to unify, no problem there. But it would have to be under the wise leadership of the most beloved, magnificent Kim Yong Un. Do the South Koreans really want that?

Reunification between both Koreas is inevitable. And it is a must. The old enthusiasm for communism is dead, all that's left is a need for regime survival. Ultimately something has to be done upon reunification to better integrate the north Koreans into a modern standard of living and education similar to its south. Additionally electing local politicians from the local batch of the populace poses a unique problem. That and abolishing the Norths capital in favor of Seoul or an agreed upon new national capital is a must.

China would not want a democracy on its doorstep, especially one which is in active partnership with the USA and could feasibly station US troops on the border (or move them there in times of tension). We've seen what Russia has done in Ukraine when it felt threatened after Ukraine aligned itself more with the EU. North Korea currently acts as a convenient buffer for China.

Hatsoff: Exactly. As as the CP in China is in power, the Kim clan in NK is too. All this speculation about regime collapse is nonsense.

Looking at what happened in East/West Germany and I am hopeful for the people of United Korea. Nothing is perfect, but many lives of former east Germans are better and freedom to travel and work throughout the EU is an amazing benefit.

While far-fetched, I can imagine a day when Japan, Korea, China, and other east-Asian counties are united under a unified republic.

Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too, Imagine all the people, Living life in peace...

Here in the States, I once had a boss who had much earlier escaped from North Korea. He seemed like a very decent sort, with a very sad story.

A unified Korea under Pyongyang and King burger in control I suppose. Twice the number of people starving, living in poverty and misery. Yeah righ! Get rid of Chuppy chops and the rest of his lackeys and bootlicks and this little fantasy just might actually come true!

Politically motivated fairy stories from AP's Hyung-jin-kim. What nonsense.

I could see the two Koreas unifying and then Kim Jong-un winning the presidency by a landslide in the first election. He will subcontract the concentration camps to Sanrio (of Hello Kitty fame) and everybody will live happily ever after.

2 stubborn countries.. Nothing will happen.

President Park Geun-hye told a New Year’s press conference that unifying with North Korea would bring an economic “bonanza,” not massive financial costs

And everyone would live happily ever after. What on earth did the three wise men drop off in Seoul, gold frankincense, and cloud cuckoo land.......

"President Park Geun-hye told a New Year’s press conference ( a year ago ) that unifying with North Korea would bring an economic “bonanza,” not massive financial costs"

There might be an economic bonanza in a couple of decades, but first there would, of course, be massive financial costs making West Germany's financial costs in absorbing East Germany look like a picnic.

Thanks a lot, Kim Dynasty and China, thanks a lot.

An ideal way of reunifying both South Korea and North Korea would be with the help of the United States using a long term strategy of slowly merging the North and South. However China would never support such an option because North Korea is a strategic buffer and the American troops would get to close to its border making it uncomfortable. However for now the young dictator and demigod Kim Jong Un believes in the Stalinist system and continues to cater to the elite by spending hundreds of millions of dollars while a quarter million malnourished children and adults with chronic diseases starve and suffer from gross human rights violation.