Putting Korea together again
If the Korean peninsula becomes one country, what can it learn from German unification?
FOR more than 40 years, soldiers from North and South Korea have watched each other grimly across a demilitarised zone. But for how much longer? North Korea's economy is in a wretched state. Famine is claiming North Korean lives. The demise of the isolationist, communist state, and its absorption by South Korea, look likelier by the day.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Putting Korea together again”
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