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3 Keys Perspectives

  • Economics
  • Environment
  • Politics

Park Geun Hye's Speech

Economics

  • GDP per capita
  • North Korea: $1152 (167th)
  • South Korea: $20,045 (30th)
  • Immediate Consequences
  • Huge pressure on South Korea
  • Taxes
  • Possible collapse of South Korean economy
  • Estimate of 1~5 trillion dollars needed
  • Germany: 2.3 trillion dollars
  • Benefits
  • Possible economic bonanza
  • Labor and resources

"I harbor no illusions that these tremendous barriers could be torn down with ease. But the future belongs to those who believe in their dreams and act on them. To make today’s dream of peaceful unification tomorrow’s reality, we must begin meticulous preparations now”

The Politics

  • End of the largest threat in Asia
  • Last Stalinist State
  • U.S military presence in S. Korea
  • Grant of freedom to the N. Korean people
  • One Korea, One People
  • Families reunite
  • Discriminiation?
  • Past grudges
  • Prejudice

Background

Politics

"Just as German unification represented the inexorable tide of history, I believe that Korean unification is a matter of historical inevitability. For nothing can repress the human yearning for dignity, freedom and prosperity."-Park

Verdict: Unify!

  • Time is Money
  • More costs will follow the delays
  • Slow, yet steady, transition
  • Don't rush, let things flow naturally
  • Aid from other nations
  • USA, Russia, China and Japan
  • Welcome the new, forget the past
  • Compassion and respect
  • Conserve as much of the DMZ's ecosystem
  • Stimulate economic growth in the North
  • Industrialization + Modernization
  • Future Generation=Key

The Economy

“Should North Korea allow South Korea to develop its natural resources, the benefits would accrue to both halves of the peninsula. This would organically combine South Korean capital and technology with North Korean resources and labor and redound to the eventual formation of an economic community on the Korean Peninsula” -Park

The Environment

  • Pre-World War 2
  • Under Japanese Coloinization from 1910-1945
  • Suppression of Korean identity, culture
  • 1945
  • Yalta Conference
  • Soviet Involvement
  • Establishment of two governments
  • 38th Parallel
  • Korean War
  • 1950~1953
  • Ceasefire
  • "Still in war"
  • Present Day
  • Fluctuation of Tension

  • Irony of the DMZ
  • World's most protected ecosystem
  • Over 1597 plant species and hundreds of endangered animal species
  • Unification=Destruction?
  • Prevention of a nuclear outbreak
  • Demiliterization of N.Korea's nuclear weaponry
  • Protection of S. Korea's nuclear plants

The Environment

“My hope is to see South and North Korea, together with the UN, moving to build an international peace park inside the DMZ. By clearing barbed-wire fences and mines from parcels of the DMZ, we can start to create a zone of life and peace”-Park

North and South Korean Relations

Should these two countries promote unification?

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