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[requiem_17_23]

I'm sure that there must be a decent reason that there is not more noise made about these people.

I suppose that the answer is approximately 'well, what are you going to do about the situation?'

I still reckon that there should be more of an answer than 'poke fun at a social sciences department being forced to hunt actual unicorns'.

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[ilanin]

So basically the reason very little is actually done is because the world largely defers to China and South Korea on dealing with North Korea (which is reasonable as they're the people who actually share a border with it).

Both of these states are terrified that if they poke the DPRK too hard it will collapse, and then they will be stuck with the bill for cleaning up the mess. South Korea in particular is aware how much reunification cost West Germany and doesn't really think it can afford that. Lacking other alternatives, the Republic of Korea has settled on a policy of blind optimism; which is to say that by encouraging internal reform in North Korea its economy/society may develop to a point where unification would not be accompanied by a major migration of refugees to the South.

Attempting to square this goal with the fact that the Korean War has not actually ended has defeated more than one South Korean administration.