Evaluating the Possible Alliance between North Korea and South Korea

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1 Faculty of Foreign Affairs

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Korean Peninsula as an ancient and strategic land, is the place of one of the most complex and difficult riddles of the international scene. Nuclear crisis of North Korea and the bipartiteness of the peninsula not only has affected the people of this land, but also the visage of Northeast Asia. In discussions about the reunification of the two Koreas, economic and cultural dimensions are considered highly critical and extremely challenging. The occurrence of such an event, is expected to further affect global and regional economic and cultural equations. South Korea with all of its economic capabilities cannot solely manage such an event and pay its costs. Therefore, like the economic development of the southern part, international supports would be deeply significant in the economic boom of the United Korea. In the cultural dimension, the successful reunification of the two countries first and foremost, requires the mutual understanding of the people about the differences arising from seventy years of separation. The government in a United Korea will grapple with many cultural challenges and one of its main cultural functions, would be separating the northerners from the Kim Il Sungism beliefs.

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World Politics
Volume 6, Issue 2 - Serial Number 20
September 2017
Pages 155-187

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