Plan for reunification of Koreas

[Second Summer]

SEOUL — South Korea's President Park Geun-hye, has announced a committee to prepare for reunification with North Korea. President Park said unifying with the north would be an economic bonanza, but analysts say the south would face a heavy financial and legal burden.[...]

President Park in a New Year's speech described merging South Korea's advanced technology with North Korea's resources and cheap labor as an economic jackpot.[...]

South Korea's Finance Ministry last year estimated reunification could cost up to seven percent of the annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for a decade. [...]

Full article: South Korea Committee to Prepare for Reunifcation with North (Voice of America, February 25, 2014 )

 

[Mischief]

I would think that this is public relations/posturing ploy.

 

[Second Summer]

I would think that this is public relations/posturing ploy.

Maybe partly. But it makes sense to have such a plan, just in case the regime in the North somehow collapses.