This is probably a good thing. To NK "unification" meant eventually taking over and annexing or absorbing SK into their society.
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StoyfanMay 6, 2026
+19
By unification, they mean a peaceful transition to a union of north and South Korea. They adopted this policy to give an impression that their end goal is peaceful in nature, even if they intend the North Korean regime to effectively take over the South.
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SovKom98May 6, 2026
+44
A two state policy is probably the best way to promote peace on the peninsula.
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HeizardMay 6, 2026
-79
No need for "reunification" when there gonna be no country left in 100 years with its natural population decline. They will just wait and move in.
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Sir_TortoiseMay 6, 2026
+49
Do we have any wild extrapolations we could apply to North Korea in an entire century as well?
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Hungry_HuiaMay 6, 2026
-32
It really depends on whether or not the 20×10 Regional Development Policy gets completed by 2035 before Russia and China decide to place the country back on sanctions or not, which is increasingly unlikely as we move into a multipolar world.
If completed, North Korea could likely withstand decades of embargoes and sanctions. The country managed to reach a lower malnutrition death rate compared to the United States in 2018 according to the United States, and that was before the sanctions regime on North Korea ended on May 2024.
Whether or not it forces South Korea to improve workers and renters rights enough that they can get out of their death spiral or not will remain to be seen. Every generation there are less South Koreans which means each generation requires an even higher fertility rate to get out of the death spiral they are currently in.
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AjhaleMay 6, 2026
+22
im sure north Korea accurately reports their malnutrition rate and also follows the same definition as the US!
oh wait
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Hungry_HuiaMay 6, 2026
-12
University of Washington's IMHE report reported that, not North Korea, which doesn't publish any reports for foreign use. University of Washington does a health report on all countries looking at UN / WFP / WHO surveys inside the country, food imports and exports, and the health of defectors coming into South Korea.
Virtually every socialist country and former Soviet country except Laos is doing better than the US on malnutrition as of today.
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FigeaterApocalypseMay 6, 2026
+6
>The country managed to reach a lower malnutrition death rate compared to the United States in 2018 according to the United States,
You got a link to that study?
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valencia866 days ago
+6
Huh, silence. How odd.
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Surroundedonallsides6 days ago
+3
I thought most propagandists hide their history, but you're just out there loud and proud being a cheerleader for North Korea, day in and day out.
I'll keep enjoying my freedom of speech and movement, you can go live in NK and get locked up in the gulag for listening to "evil westerner" bootleg tapes.
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OMGMianiteS3OfficialMay 6, 2026
+16
Are you talking about North Korea going extinct? Because that's far more likely given the widespread malnutrition causing fertility issues.
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Shot-Toe-2884May 6, 2026
+1
This fool thinks short term population growth trends don’t change.
Except they quickly do, all throughout human history. When population sags, it’s followed not long after by a boom.
You know it’s a bad argument when the argument used to involve most of the western world and now it only works for just Japan. America’s population was supposed to collapse too. All of Western Europe as well. The trend changed. The lack of newborns made it easier for parents to have newborns again.
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zasabi76 days ago
It’s playing out similarly in Germany: https://youtu.be/n-gYFcVx-8Y?si=k0OJg_aIXuQPokc4
They made a video on South Korea prior to this. People don’t want or can’t afford kids. Putting your head in the sand isn’t going to change that
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