Uniting Korea

For over 50 years Korea has been divided and the North and South are drastically different politically, socially, and to some degree culturally. South Korea is highly advanced compared to North Korea and the standard of living in the south is incredibly high when compared to the north. For many they would like to see these two nations come together and finally end the reign of North Korea's crazy dictatorship. But reuniting these two nations will be a very difficult to do.

First off if the two come together, who becomes the leader, most people in the international community would agree that South Korea's government would become the nation's leader, but these would not go over well for the current leaders in North Korea and to much of the international community and South Korea, having North Korea's government take control of a united Korea is unacceptable. Having a combined leadership would also cause problems, because both sides would clash consistently.

On top of choosing who leads the new united nation, there is the problem of what to do with a more important issue, what about the people. South Korea is highly advanced, the people are fed well and make more money, while in North Korea the people are improvised and starving. A goal of uniting Korea, would be getting the north to the standard of living of the south. These would be an insanely hard and long process to get the north up to the south's standard. Another problem would be that the people in North Korea do not have the same skills that the people of South Korea would have. The newly integrated North Koreans would have a difficulty of finding jobs and would end up finding cheap work, while South Koreans would be on the top and could create a social divide among North and South Koreans.

There are many other problems that come at when considering a united Korea. A united Korea may be difficult to achieve, but not impossible. Not long ago Germany was divided between east and west and when they united they faced similar problems, but now they have one of the strongest economies in the world, all it takes is determined people in charge to have the two become one again.