Why North, South Korea need to settle differences, unite — Korean professionals

Concerned nationals of North Korea who are professionals working in South Korea have expressed their support to the ongoing efforts at reuniting the two Korean nations divided by war.

The Korean professionals made their commitment to the Korean unification known, while being engaged on issues pertaining to relationships between the two divided nations by some African journalists on the reporting tour of the United States and South Korea, at the U. S. Embassy in Seoul.

The journalists who were sponsored on the trip by the U. S Embassy, Seoul, had, also on Tuesday, had series of discussions with top Koreans from both the North and South, who were of the views that the call for unification would be good for both countries.

Some of the South Korean professions who were met with at its capital city, Seoul,

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in their unanimous submission believed if both countries could reunite, the economic development in South Korea would spread to North Korea whose people, it was said were living in poverty.

A lot of people living in North Korea, a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsular, established in 1948, after separated from the South, are said to be battling with tuberculosis, and other diseases largely unattended to because of the poor health facilities in the country.

“It is unfortunate things have turned out bad for the people of North Korea because of the choice its leadership has made on investing the country’s huge resources in the acquisition of facility and production of weapons of mass destruction instead of building infrastructures and creating an economic advantage for its people.

“The South Korean leadership on its own had decided to invest in and build its local economy, for the betterment of its people, the reason, the country which had suffered a lot of devastation from war and subsequent attacks from North Korea, is today, one of the biggest economies in the world,” a respondent said.

“Communism which the North Korean government practices are an old warped ideology and no country develops in isolation, ostracising itself from the international community, and subject its people to all forms of inhuman experiences,” an official said.

“The economic situation in North Korea is still bad, there is no development in the country and its people are also not developed, Pyong the health facilities are bad, no doctors to treat the people largely suffering from tuberculosis,” another respondent said.

It will be recalled that the desire of many Koreans for a peaceful unification was dashed when the Korean War broke out in 1950.

The troops from North Korea, had, in June 1950, invaded South Korea, after the Japanese empire was dismantled at the end of World War Two. Thereafter, Korea fell victim to the Cold War, and it was divided into two spheres of influence, as the Americans controlled south of the line, while the Russians installed a communist regime in the North, which later ceded influence to China.

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In a recent development, analysts had said that unifying North and South Korea could cost a trillion dollars under the best of circumstances and take several decades.

The final price tag which was said would also depend largely on what the catalyst for reunification is, also made other analysts put the cost of reunification at far more closer to $3 trillion.

Formerly a single nation that was annexed by the Empire of Japan in 1910, the two nations have been divided since the end of World War II in 1945.

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