I assume it will rejoin south korea after the fall, and bankrupt the government.
I think you have it. The problems Germany had in assimilating the GDR will look like child's play compared to what South Korea will have to deal with.
The author correctly surmises that the fall and presumed "reunification" with the south, will cause a far worse economic drain on the new, unified Korea, than the crippled economy of E. Germany caused when the Berlin Wall fell.
....and BTW, once American troops are gone, and the now-rioting S. Korean students are faced with raw reality, who will be the target(s) of their new rioting then?
America?.......again?.........for not having stuck around to clean things up after "America" caused the wretched refuse yearning to be free in N. Korea to come stumbling and staggering down into the prosperous south, looking for "a better life?"
...........and, oh.........I have to tell you how much I LOVE "Righty_McRight" !!! Key-yewt name!
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