Can Korea be Reunited?
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(Ex-West-) German here. I grew up in Cold War 1 (1947-1990) and during that period we all were used to think that this will never change. The divide will be forever.
But when it did change (1989-1991), we all could not believe it. So, any future expectation can be proven wrong.
I love these videos =)
Naja war doch irgendwie absehbar das die Sowjetunion früher oder später kollabiert und die DDR dann da steht wie ein nasser Sack.
Mein Opa hat sich erschrocken, dass das so schnell ging. Er rechnete mit 80 Jahren wie heute Nord und Südkorea und nicht "nur" mit 40 Jahre Teilung.
Gut. Zusammen was zusammen gehört 🇩🇪🍻🇩🇪
Die DDR und BRD wollten auch nie voneinander getrennt werden sie wollten sich sogar immer als das "einzig wahre Deutschland" präsentieren.
Da standen aber einerseits die Besatzungsmächte im Weg und die Ideologien.
Das die Wiedervereinigung vor allem so flüssig verlief ohne irgendwelche wirtschaftlichen Krisen oder Kohl es geschafft hat den Engländer an die Leine zu nehmen und das ein Teil der Bevölkerung nicht Mal vernachlässigt wurde ist großartig.
Lief alles nicht ganz rosig der Solidarität Zuschlag war natürlich in der Kritik, aber wenigstens haben wir uns nicht gegenseitig zerfleischt und mehr Fach gegenseitig eingenommen wie Süd und Nord Korea und waren danach Jahre lang wirtschaftlich Tot.
Except for Korean.
Humanity is loooong gone in the southern part of the penensila bro thats a fact . In Germany there was the nationalism and patriarchy amd the pain of torn apart population felt on bpth sides so the whole deal went very smoothly . The whole ordeal is missing in the Koreans specually in the southern parts . They are busy with workin their asses pff and the %10 on top are busy with exploiting the sys to get their wealth to grow and abuse the 90% below for sating their appetits . Thats what i know about the deal thats on no insult or hurt feelings was intended🙏
@@akiamini4006 the south has now become like the US, though it has a more similar, more friendly neighbour up north, it feels too mighty to join them, because "we are busy with our own shit".
@@kaushiksaikadali7460 but its worse than being busy with your own shit . Youve become your own shit or worse in most cases no insult intended
I'm Korean, and even though I never really had much care about reunification, seeing a run-through of why my country is in the predicament that it is gives me huge depression.
I feel it, my friend.
If it can help, think how you don't bear the guilt of your ancestors traveling the world to conquer, enslave, rob and torture people around it.
South Korea is probably the ONLY modern power that doesn't have that.
@@Wurfenkopf bruh how does that help
@@Wurfenkopf it's not the only country there's a good few countries
Sad for China and Taiwan as well, they are all because of ideological battles
@@ethancheng576 ye except it isn’t as bad for those two because they can still cross the border to visit and stuff. I’m ethnically Chinese and ik a lot of people that have friends and family in Taiwan, and vice versa.
As a Korean, I really enjoyed this video.
I'd like to add a few things.
First, there was a Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai created in 1919 to centralize all independence movements. In 1940, the Korean Independence Army was formed and faught in the Burmese and Chinese fronts among the allies. This Korean Provisional Government (Right), as well as the Korean Reconstruction Preparation Administration(→Later Korean Peoples Republic(Not DPRK) (Left) formed in Seoul were originally the supposed rulers of Korea, but was oppressed by both the USA and USSR because they didn' want Korea to be independant.
Another point is that one of the major reasons for the North Korean economy's collapse was the Sino-Soviet split. Being one of the only communist nations ti border both countries, North Korea was very worried that they would be squashed between a fight. Therefore, in order to achieve neutrality, they went for a non-alligned policy, similar to Yugoslavia. This as well as an excessive amount of Military fee increases led the North Korean economy to fail. Lastly, there were plans to invade North Korea in 1996 to invade North Korea, as they were going through a major food shortage, didnt have nukes, the USSR was gone, and China wasnt powerful. However this was rejected by the Americans because they wanted "peace".
I go to sleep everyday asking myself why we as an "independent" nation ask permission to do something from a foreign government that represents foreign people on policies that affect us. Why wont the Korean people wake up even after knowing what happened with his excellency Park Chung Hee's 80% finished nuclear bomb....
hmm i guess the 90s was a great opportunity for those border changes
Again statement from wiki
@@xXxSkyViperxXx it would have been a disaster, the u.s always bombs places they fight to oblivion(e.x North Korea had 630,000 tons of bombs dropped on it during the korean war, destroying nearly all the buildings, infrastructure and factories. More than 75% of pyongyang was rubble, and a U.S general said that nearly every city in North korea was destroyed by bombing. This is largely why the u.s and south are unpopular in the north, and an invasion in the 90's would make this resentment even worse.
Ffs i need more than just 'Korean' which Korean are you?
A unified Korea could become a serious geopolitical player down the line. I would consider Korea more akin to Spain than to Poland.
Which is why Japan does not want a unified Korea, because Korea would become a competitor for it’s spot on the geopolitical powers.
You are overestimating the power of European nation. SK alone would surpass Spain easily given the financial difficulty Spain is having rn. A unified Korea would developed well is more akin to Italy I believe.
Are you serious? Even if they reunite their land and population don't even compare to Japan.
besides, they'd rather destroy themselves than work for the greater good, just look at them now.
They don't have a large enough territory and population for that And that equates Poland with Korea, it's not comparable, at least Poland has been one of the great powers in Europe, while Korea has historically always been a subordinate of superpower country
@@brabbits5308 exactly, they were always slave of other neighbourly nations then and they will be in the future. It's in their blood and they will be happy for it.
I really enjoyed this video, keep it up!
Same.
No, Russia & USSR aren't the same fucking country. Fucking Christ.
@@shonenjumpmagneto Tf this have to do?
Tell him to stop using clipart
"Korea is basically the Poland of East Asia" 💀💀💀
I would've said Albania
No. Korea has never disappeared from the map until Japanese rule in early 20th century. Korea was independent state for thousands of years. And won the most of wars.
Joseon dynasty had tributary relationship with imperial China but Joseon was not subordinated to China. The Chinese tributary system was a largely symbolic Confucian world order with its basis in trade & philosophical relations between foreign states & various Chinese dynasties. Its relation to the sovereignty of some states was flexible & diverse. Larger states (e.g., Joseon Korea & Japan) enjoyed full sovereignty in both domestic & foreign affairs, & their intl status cannot be considered ' dependent states'.
from Wikipedia.
@@seoul_louis9584 tributary state is a term for a pre-modern state in a particular type of subordinate relationship to a more powerful state which involved the sending of a regular token of submission, or tribute, to the superior power. This token often took the form of a substantial transfer of wealth, such as the delivery of gold, produce or slaves, so that tribute might best be seen as the payment of protection money
Yeah right not sUboRdInaTe
Just admit it in its history Korea has never been a strong country
Form Wikipedia Too.
@@brabbits5308 Chinese tributary system was literally symbolic world of east asia. Japan, Korea and Vietnam were tributary states of China. But they were independent state
Learn History before acting like you are historian
I was stationed in South Korea I Camp Humphreys, 2ID from January 2020 to February 2021. It's was the best time of my military career.
Don't want to dunk in u personally but the US literally controls the south Korean military, it's basically an American colony
@Tony Matic not really, I didn't get that vibe or reality when I was there
I've heard Seoul is a very modern city with a wild nightlife scene.
Must be cool to experience such a different country from the US.
Although I have always wondered which the prime target for US defense in South Korea is as if a war comes North Korea is so close they could carpet bomb the Seoul area into oblivion as it is so close to the border.
Maybe it's also used to contain China but I don't know if the South Koreans are very fond of the idea.
@@tonymatic1704 Learn the definition of a colony
@@tonymatic1704 ur making it sound like sk is some hobo third world country. Sk is world’s 10th gdp and 6th in military power. Us bases are stationed there because it is one of the frontlines where ww3 is likely to happen if it were to occur.
Germany, Austria: Gets partioned for losing wars
Meanwhile Korea:
Can you do one where it’s like “Why is there only North Macedonia and not a southern one?”
Cause greece wanted macedonia to change it's name
there is a Macedonia proper and is the largest Greek province
south Macedonia or the one and only according to the greeks is in Greece
@@robertabella1806 you mean ccording to everyone in the world lmao
@@conk6379 isn't Epirus slightly bigger?
And just like that an ethic group with a very unique and beautiful culture that's thousands of years old was split unlikely to ever unite again just because America China and Russia wanted to be a little bit more powerful
They didn't wanted to be powerful. They just wanted to stop their ideologies to spread any further. And divided this beautiful land
“China wanted to be a little bit more powerful”
I would love to see how you’d react if China built a shit ton of military bases on the border of the USA. I’m sure that would go down very well…
@@XXXTENTAClON227 Well, that certainly sounds like a fair trade off for the incredible suffering of 25 million people under the regime of North Korea
@@abbyalphonse499 lmao then let’s just have huge Chinese military bases in Atlanta with nuclear range and see how you get on
@@XXXTENTAClON227 i didn't mention only China. America was the first country i mention but don't try to say that China is innocent on this global power games
Uniting both korea will have a lot of pros and cons but I do hope they reunite
It is possible but even if they did it would be the same problem we have in Germany even though Western German even though I weigh more developed and Wealthy while the Eastern side is more in poverty North Koreans will not be accepted into the general population for a while they'd be treated how the black was treated in America in the 1940s and 50s. They'll be segregation there's only two possible scenarios one another war in Korea kicks off that determines what side unifies. But the most realistic one that's in make the European Union like Union.
@@thermslusitania1151 The thing is you can't see who a north korean is or a south korean except for the accent and where they are from you know and the thing with america and how they treated black people doesnt really make any sense in this topic
@@thermslusitania1151 cuz you can obviously tell whos african and who is american since they are not the same "people"
@@thermslusitania1151 "mak"? Make believe? Also the Jim Crow system in the United States is a bad analogy to use.
@B K Could Be a Big Problem In their Economy
The fact that the Korean War is technically ongoing, one of them can invade the other whenever they like.
Hey great video as always! But I do have to critique on one major point on the reasons against reunification, which isn’t as heavily influenced by China or even the US. At this moment, reunification efforts are highly unlikely due to the stark contrast in government policies between the two Koreas rather than the sole pressure from other countries. For example, North Korean government is a Communist Dictatorship, and if reunification happens, these government officials can no longer have “power” over their citizens. For South Korea, it would be extremely difficult to develop North Korea due to cultural and societal differences of citizens who have faced decades of oppression from Communism. So unless both government officials are totally okay with losing some sort of political power (highly unlikely) reunification is virtually impossible.
"Communism"
That's stupid,have u seen the stories of people defecting from the north to the south only to become second class citizens,looked down upon by the southerners,never really equal.its illegal to say a single good word about the north in the south and the communism dictatorship part is partly true but communism does not automatically mean dictatorship.you could call Cuba authoritarian but it's more democratic than most western states
Well, as long as people still believe shit like *"You can only get Kim Jong-un's hair cut"* and *"Anyone who copies Kim Jong-un's style will be executed"* at the same time then you can pretty much say anything about North Korea and they would still think that it is true.
that situation was created by those other countries
You would be naive if you think China and Russia want an US ally with thousand of troops near it door and USA let China expand it influence to the East.
Kim's sister is a great casting choice for Kaguya-sama Love is War ...somebody should approach her if they ever do another live action😂
Kaguya way better
She looks more like Satsuki from KLK.
what...?
creepy weebs 😅
on kim il-sung era there was a high possibility of reunification, but after that, the chance become smaller and smaller. the current gap in term of society made sure any take over would be almost impossible
0:57 United States wanted Japan for herself
2:47 Han River Miracle 1970-Today
5:20 Divided Korea probably here to stay for years.
0:41 Fun fact: Gongmin king, the guy who married Mongolian princess, loved her so much that he was originally very enthusiastic and revolutionary king, but after her death, he started to fuck up.
My hometown is a city in a Chinese peninsula that's the closest to the Korean peninsula, called Weihai, takes one hour by plane to Seoul. I have (South) Korean classmates through out my school/minor years. And honestly, our generation grew up with the 2 Koreas, even as a foreigner, I never saw the chance that the 2 Koreas could unite.
This division has been the case for 70 years, and look at Cyprus, they were divided for just 4 decades but the "unification sentiments" fades away after 1-2 generations.
No, u are wrong Cyprus and Korea is different.
North Cyprus is Turkey puppet state and Majority it's citizen is etnic Turkish and that's why Cyprus didn't want reunite.
While Korea, whole Korea it's Korean.
Only politics separated both
RUclips is banned in china, how you Came here?
@@wandilande9628 like VPN doesn't exist?
@@yogawan3805 vpn is forbidden too
@@wandilande9628 it's only recently and still in grey area.
Only for personal use still fine I think.
Korean unification benefits none of the major power around. The chance of it happening is exceedingly slim
Well removing one ticking bomb and nuclear power actor would probably benefit the major powers
How so?
@@alihorda does not help that all major superpowers ARE ticking timebombs with nuclear arsenals, big nuclear arsenals to be exact
@@Harsh-tf9he fortunately they don't keen to use them. it is more trendy to use financial methods to put pressures. like how China made Africa in debt with expensive loans
@@alihorda well if timebomb goes off, everyone has full right to explode, making post apocalypse where your goverment funded luxury house is a smoking crater
I'm 18 and I still have a future. And in this future I would so much like to see the following come true:
•Μan to step on Mars
•See Korea reunite
•See Cyprus reunite and banish every trace of Greek and Turkish ultranationalism
•See Yugoslavia reunite
•See Ireland reunite and kick the British colonialism out of their land
•See Bulgaria annex Vardaska/Fyrom
•See Palestine, Kurdistan, Tibet, East Turkestan etc gaining independence
•See Afghanistan become secular and banish every trace of religious fascism
•See the Brits return the stolen historical relics to their actual owners
You forgot free kashmir
Most of those things will never happen we will step on Mars eventually
Great video as always, your content never disappoints!
Could you make a video of the best countries to live in case of WW3? Just out of curiosity...
Switzerland or Sweden
South Sudan
@@jerrytakang824 But aren't they close to a Civil war?
Iceland and siberia and madagascar and the Amazons is the answer bro . The rest are clash sites and close to nuke arsenal and high pop densety leading to massive famins in case of nuke fallout
What is certain is that the background of 3ww is likely to be the Pacific Ocean, and eventually Korea will be destroyed again.
0:09 if he said that in Twitter he would get millions of deaththreats and slurs
Its just music in other languages why y'all so dramatic
1:25 Oversimplified reference.
Two Korea has gone through many difficult times. It is not fair to be not united. They must reunite.
The greatest comeback since avengers endgame
Avengers endgame and infinity war is overrated
My grandpa served in Korea. He loved Korea. I love Korea! Korean food is the bomb!
Wait a minute... Korean food is bomb????? What do you wanna say????
@@waitingforawaveintheocean7090 haha. It's like little boy & Fat man
Wow thank your grandpa served. I am resperct your grandfa. I aleays love your familly. Thank you so much
Thank you 🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵
@@user-jc2wc9nu3e uh oh
I'm s.korean, and i could prove that the video's explanation for this god damn peninsula and countrys are accurate
Straight line? Straight line. I wonder where that came from.
You see Korea as a small country surrounded by big powers? Nope. Korea is not that weak. China, Japan, Russia... Those countries are pretty strong but Korea has 10th largest economy and 6th strongest military. And some nukes and missiles. Great cultural influence. Great high-technology with the huge industries. You cant ignore Korea.
East Asia region is Crazy 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷🇰🇵🇷🇺🇹🇼🇲🇳
仅仅是因为美国投资了韩国，韩国不可能独立做出辉煌的成就
说实在的，韩国的兴盛只和地缘政治有关
@来自涂山 空気を読め。。。
@@user-ls4fv5dh8k 🤡🤡🤡
Korea have BTS army all around the globe lol
korea one in country may eventually comeback in the future we just have to wait
2:49, that might be true. But at one point there was a time when North Korea did better than the south. Just wanted to point that out, great video.
"A bunch of Pop stars who look the same"
Idk about that 🤔
Love South Korea from Turkey :)
Love Turkey 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
Hate Turkey from your neighbor :-) I don’t have to mention which one, because it's literally can be anyone
@@Cripalani holy Greece
Korea loves Turkey !
Greetings to my Korean brothers and sister from Turkey 🇹🇷❤️🇰🇷
Cubans support the DPRK! 🇨🇺❤🇰🇵 ☭
@@spaghettimon3851 True Korea 🇰🇵🇰🇵
미국 미사일 더 맞아야 정신차리나
1:00 ugh... It's painful to even imagine the catastrophy that Japan would become if that partition did happen. Cold war would've been way more intense too!
Luckily the Sovietaboos who think that they somehow could've invaded the home islands with their nonexistent troop transports and complete lack of experience in naval invasions were wrong.
we wouldnt have had anime or hen-
@@uranuuss True
@@uranuuss -tai
Nice
1:30 also is this Oversimplified reference?
5:50 If Korea reunifies in a cooler Geopolitical climate, then I could see conscription being abolished and military being scaled down like most countries following the collapse of the USSR. If however, the Koreas reunify under today’s Geopolitical climate, they will likely maintain their military for different reasons. If reunified under Pyongyang, the military would likely be used for suppressing dissent and quelling rebellions since the liberal populace would not tolerate Stalinist style communism. If reunified under Seoul, the military would be needed in order to protect against a potential Chinese invasion given that China’s aggressive behavior towards it’s neighbors and the fact that China doesn’t want a US-aligned county on it’s doorstep, especially with a land border that could be used to invade China.
Same way the USA doesn't want a United China under Beijing threatening it's dominance on China's doorstep
It simply isin't possible. The US and China won't give up any of their respective geopolitical allies. The only reason there are two Koreas in the first place is due to the cold war. Now it's the same except China has completely replaced the USSR as the major geopolitical threat for the US in East Asia.
There's no way it can unite under Pyongyang, to put it simply, they can't afford it. The Korean south has grown so distant from them, they don't see them as brothers, but as another foreign neighbor now. Opposition would be more than what US had for the Vietnam war. Going in spite of these would mean that either China has to press the button to axe North Korea, or Kim dynasty in general, or South should peacefully finish the Kim dynasty in the friendly terms of China. Whatever be the way, Chinese acceptance for the southern takeover would only be the way to the unification.
The funny part is, both the Korean countries want to have United Korea. Well, yeah... It's whether the communists will rule or the capitalists
A lot of S. Koreans don't want reunification
The united govt would have a neutral democratic govt
Korea was separated at the end of World War 2 after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. The Soviet Union took the North and the Americans took the South. Negotiations failed to bring about a unified independent Korea.
just wait for the communism to fall as only the "Kim" family can rule in North Korea. I mean someone's uncle got assassinated.
If Romania and Moldova cannot unite, I do not see hope in this case:((.......😣
Romania and Moldova have their own problems though, with Moldova having Transnistria, and Romania being not that massively more developed or richer than moldova.
The movement to unite has been dead in both
@pootis No, they were disunited after WW2
@Safwaan You're thinking of Wallachia and Moldavia not Moldova. Moldavia is not the same country as Moldova, nor do they encompass the same land.
@Safwaan No it's not, what was previously Moldavia is within the borders of present-day Romania, Moldova is north-east of it
We will unify before 2030.
2:12 SQUID GAMES ❗❗
As Germany reunited I hope Korea will reunite too in the future ❤️
Love to the Korean people 🇰🇷🇰🇵
Its only because of dissolution of soviet union and there were no such powerful country as China for north korea
No worry we 🇰🇵will reunited south korea🇰🇷
Impossible.
@@user-jc2wc9nu3e you don't want to live under communist regime.
Global Powers :- We wish for good life of the Koreans .
Also them :- Since it doesn't benefit us we don't actually care .
i love your videos and i think this was a good summary on the whole situation. unfortunately, you did use the wrong flag for South Korea for half the video. the one with the blue trigrams is the korean imperial flag (1879-1910). aside from that, i really appreciate these kinds of videos. thank you!
You remained impressively objective in this video!
Love South Korea from the USA 🇺🇸❤🇰🇷
Yes, my neo colonial puppet state😁
@@tonymatic1704 That's north korea to china and russia lol
@@cookiesaregood8844 US soldiers in South Korea, no Chinese or Russians in North Korea. Say that again? Not saying they shouldn't be there, but I would think by now South Korea is well prepared to defend itself on its own. Even Singapore doesn't have US soldiers (army or Marines) on its sovereign territory, Philippines too (despite having a weaker military than South Korea). Highlights a white-worship victim mentality of South Korea.
@@tonymatic1704 That puppet state is one of the most developed countries in the world BTW. How embarrassing a free and 'democratic people's Republic' is less developed than Zimbabwe
@@sw36jl That is because we built so much up in South Korea that we want to defend it. North Korea has attempted 2 invasions of South Korea and failed both times. We don't want them to try again. And yes Singapore does have a US military base
I love how the Sunshine Policy is just basically the Kim Dynasty trying to protect their own power
Please make a video on the Imjin war, basically a video on the two invasions of Korea by Japan in 1600s. Or just a general video about Japan or the Empire of Japan
can you make a "Why Hungary and Romania hate each other" video
Last 70 years was so drasric that at this point the two Koreas are completely different nations only with same language and same food.
South Korea is almost the G8 country in the world and the major superpower when it comes to global economy and military. However, they lacks natural resources and their population is declining. So if they are united with North Korea where plenty of resources are buried, the united Korea would be much more stronger thanks to high technology with enough natural resources and increased population.
That's true in the long term but the short term problems are very unappealing to the young people.
@@SoundsOfTheWild3 whats that usa, china wants u to think. so they dont have to deal with unified korea
Except excluding Italy and Canada is a way better option, I kinda agree with you.
@@QWERTY-gp8fd East Germamy had 3 trillion dollars of investment since unification and is still behind West Germany in development. North Korea would bleed the South's economy dry in trying to catch up if unifed.
@@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight and currently germany is de facto leader of eu. no matter what u think the long term effect is better for korea. they still be big economy on top of having military rival to china.
Make can Ireland be reunified
(Don't say top of morning or potato, those are annoying stereotypes)
Countryballs is meant to be stereotypical though
@@averagehoi4player52 do i care mate?
no
@@LightoZtriker then you won't get what you're demanding for, Karen.
The South Korean flag has been changed to the Korean Empire flag…
The way I see, South Korean flag looks like a version of Japanese flag.
5:29 I like how he shows that family business part
Gotta love the oversimplified reference 😂
Maybe they can have a shared economic zone while being separate nations
Or better yet a union like the European Union but for the two koreas they both have rules and policies that benefit both sides and share similar currency and Military but however stay separate
Do you really think the Kims would go along with it?
@@brandonlyon730 maybe they would, but probably as preparations of unification to start and improve things
If you either choose Japan to split or Korea to split,I will choose Korea to split also, Japan is so much important for USA that they create South Korea as a buffer between Japan and Communist countries, pacific is so much important for sea trade for USA, Japan is lucky the two Koreans are just unlucky to be buffer between two ideologies.
A Vietnamese who is learning Korean. I don't think they need unification.
I personally think as an American United States and China and Russia both pull out of the Korean Peninsula and let both sides handle the differences on their own
3:25 I like how you stated two names of Sea of Japan/East Sea to not trigger both
Japan doesn't give a crap about it.
@@green_hedger_68 Why are you so mean? Why are you so filled with hatred? Does that help you? Does someone pays you for hating me? Do you feel happy hating me? Why the fuck are you hating me, and are filled with this wicked version of patriotism that will never benefit you or your nation, when being allies benefits both Japan and Korea. And you are just standing here, hating.
@@Nauta_ I am not japanese First of all and neither hate korea.
I see so many Comment where Korean cry and angry about Japan in WW2.
Where japanese people love korean and Love them as their Brother.
I am not targeting you I am just angry about those patriotic Korean.
@@green_hedger_68 Its kind of issues. Theres Koreans hating Japanese. Theres Japanese hating Koreans. Wish they quit hating. Hating is just so powerful emotion don't you think? Hatred transcends borders and time, ethnicity and people will hate others even if they gain nothing from it. More over hate can be taught, it is contagious, this is something love cannot do.
@@Nauta_ Tell me a single japanese person or Video where japanese don't like Korean.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the last 30 seconds. The length of separation is a massive outlier not many people seem to realise. I would love to see a Korea unified, but honestly I think that it is highly unlikely to happen in our lifetimes. Maybe in a few 100 years, but not anytime soon. What I think will realistically happen eventually is the collapse of the Kim regime of the North and the establishment of a different regime in its place, as the 2 Koreas will remain separate countries forever. The Kim regime is unstable and cannot last that way forever. It's artificially propped up, and if China does fall like the Soviet Union I don't see modern Russia keeping that regime alive in any way shape or form. It will collapse on itself, and the lack of interest from the South will prevent unification, so effectively leaving the North a separate country. Say hypothetically, a Capitalist and liberal regime takes over the Kim regime of the North. I believe it still won't do anything towards unification as the 2 countries are effectively alien in culture from one another due to length of separation. You cannot recognise them as the same thing anymore. It would be like unifying Brazil and Argentina. It just isn't going to happen unfortunately....
There is something quite similar with Ireland
You talk as if the US was the most stable country in the world, not artificially built on blood and freemasonry, and immortal there my friend 🤣🤣🤣🤣
brace yourself for impact, my American fellow, it's going to be a big one,
@J Silva lol no. China has unified and disintegrated numerous times in its history. The most recent time being a little over a hundred years ago.
Even if the modern Chinese government falls one day (probably not anytime soon) this new Chinese govenment will possibly still remain hostility with western countries, meaning the new Chinese government will still have the attitude of maintaining korea being seperated, as long as South Korea is still part of USA side, and I dont think China will split to many countries like USSR did, even if it will, then its definitly just temporary, because Chinese people have a kind of obsession of keeping China unified, it was like that, it is still like that, and it will always be like that, its........a kind of tradition I guess
@J Silva: Inner Mongolia could return to the rest of Mongolia. Xinjiang could become another Turkic nation, Tibet could return to the Tibetans and Hong Kong could be free and independent again. I agree with you that traditional Sino China won't split. But a lot of territory the CCP holds as I've stated above never really belonged to China until fairly recently. Only makes sense that territory goes back to it's rightful people. Whether China allows that or not is a different story. Every empire or "Dynasty" in this case eventually collapses. This is just my thoughts and opinions by the way.
Fun fact Britain did occupy part of Japan but withdrew due to resources being needed at home
1:26 nice oversimplified reference
South Korea 🇰🇷 Is Best Country
@Shitposter is alive Man, that's bullshit
@Shitposter is alive What about both Koreas?
A forgotten part of the korean war is the heavy bombing campaign in the north. It is largely why the kim's could keep a strong grip on power, as they were prefered to the Americans who had destroyed nearly all the cities and towns in the north. It is likely a big reason for why reuniffication may be difficult even today(and a bit why they are so poor. Of course the north has had enough time to recover from it, so it doesn't excuse the poor living conditions. However it may have made the government's grip more powerful, as nearly everything in pyongyang or any big town or city was built after the 50's.
I mean north korea is barred form trading with any other country. As you might know a self sustaining nation this small in size is bound to be poor. If all the pacific island countries stop trading their economy and people will fall off in 1-2 months if not a few days.
In that case, any talks on reunification would need to have little or even no US involvement. NK wouldn't go along with that if America's the backseat driver.
Koreans are precious compatriots to me, but to someone, the Korean Peninsula was only an interesting laboratory.
There was a Peace Treaty signed on April 27, 2018.
1:26 reference to oversimplified?
Love North Korea (but not the government) and South Korea from Philippines🇰🇷❤🇵🇭❤🇰🇵
🇰🇵🔥🔥 북한 정부를 싫어한다면서 인공기를 드는건 뭔 생각이냐??
Small complaint: North Korea technically isn't communist, since the regime basically created a new ideology in the 90's in the existing societal structure. It's called Juche and is like marxism, except class is considered a good thing.
Marx would be rolling in his grave.
@@Avghistorian77 honestly Marx would roll in his grave if he found out about the ussr , everything he hated and said it was an obstacle to create his utopian society was seen in the ussr .
Pls try to be more consistent your content is awesome
Korean commoners may not think of reunification, but the great people of this nation will not accept division. History does not belong to the foolish population even though they are the majority.
I wonder, these so Called "great people" how would they unify Korea. care to explain :)
2:13 squid game guards 🤣
Good to see you upload after a while
Your work is amazing and I gain much from it please post as frequent as possible ☺️.
As an Korean this is pog
Accurate. Outsider powers making it impossible in a nutshell.
"A bunch of pop star who look the same" = Died laughing
I feel sad to think that my country reuniting would be difficult to happend not only because of the aftermath but because of other countries that can't allow it for they're own benefit...
@2:16 Note how the North won the Fatherland Liberation War by controlling more land after the ceasefire than before the War began.
In terms of land size no, DPRK became smaller instead
But they got valuable land, cities and the shore
When Korean meets Polish and talk about their histories.
Korean : "Ay!"
Polish : "Ay!"
Korea be like:
USSR: Strait line?
USA: Strait line
Vietnam be like:
USSR: Strait line?
USA: Strait line
North Vietnam: Eh, I don't think so
This is South Korea, the land of bunch of pop stars who look same!
i'm ded hahahahah 🤣🤣🤣
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For little Korean perspective, reunification in modern day is like natural disaster for young people live in here. both north or south dont wanna reunite but someday it will happen, and we cannot control it anymore...
But it’s job opportunities for many across the world, maybe worldwide Korean immigrants return to help and stay
Would be done like when Hong Kong and Macau were returned to China. You don’t get rid of the border right away but take many years or even decades before border is completely erased.
yea, problem is the lifestyle of the north and south. the south is more wealthy than the north so North Koreans will most likely be looked down upon and I can assume school bullying will happen. lots of things the south will have to sacrifice for the north to develop more when unified so yea.
Can you make one video about
Can the Great Colombia exist again?
It depends on how much South Korean will pay for such unification.
Another difference is that East Germany despite being distopian wasn't a third world country like NK.
And even then, the cost for reunification was great for west Germans. It would be far greater on the South Koreans.
Good job! I love your videos
Oversimplified reference "straight line? straight line
Idea for next video: Can be Czech Republick and Slovakia reunited today to Czechoslovakia? :D
Thats genius idea
Are they the same people?
@Safwaan man.... Slovakia and Czech is neigbours like N. And S. Korea :D and they also got "same" history like Korea -.- It's not so much different. Reunited Korea and Czechoslovakia is very good idea and for long history, bouth of them was really one nation :D *sry for my english 😂😂
@Safwaan man... Great Moravia? Slavic settlers. We are like brothers but both of us in Slavic mood and western
@Safwaan as Czech! I can approve that czech and slovakia people ale very similar. We have very similar language, very similar cultures. We dont say like Czech RUclips scene, but WE say Cz/Sk RUclips scene beacouse for many youtubers in cz or sk. We watch both of scenes, our launguages are veeery similar. We trade also culter, we share also internert. We are brothers...
Love South Korea 🇰🇷 From Turkey🇹🇷
it's all because of the crazy rocket man. Most South Koreans want peace with separated government not unification.
Thank you very much for your work
The s.korea flag is actually korean empire flag but ok
If we reunited korea then we should improve the life in north korea or north koreans would make massive migration to sout korea that can damage the economy.
2:10 i like the representation of cold war being the us and ussr playing together a fighting game
Finally, I've been waiting for this masterpiece.
1:27 I like that oversimplified reference
Do one about Switzerland 🇨🇭
Great video
I'm glad that I was able to see this in time.
when i see your videos , my morale boosts. what about making a video about syria ?