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After the end of World War II, the world pattern underwent fundamental changes, and emerging countries rose, but it was also accompanied by the division of some single nation-states into two countries. Germany was split into the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR in 1945, but was reunited in 1990 at the end of the Cold War. However, North Korea and South Korea, two fraternal countries, have never had the possibility of reunification.
The reasons for this lead to differences in the legitimacy of the governments, and the governments of North and South Korea are more exclusive than the governments of Germany and Germany. Germany was able to achieve reunification in part because of its long history of division, which gave Germans a deep affection and desire for unification. However, the division of the Korean Peninsula stemmed from outside intervention, and Korea was once a vassal state of China, later colonized by Japan, and eventually divided into North and South Korea.
After World War II, during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Korea and South Korea were in the historical background of confrontation, while the threat of nuclear war between Germany made the German people yearn for reunification even stronger. However, North and South Korea developed deep hostility during the war, and the Korean War of 1950-1953 caused massive destruction and casualties, causing both sides to see each other as enemies.
Although there has been no full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula since 1953, skirmishes between the two sides have continued until recently. These clashes have deepened popular hostility and brought inter-Korean relations to a stalemate.
The Soviet Union played a key role in German reunification, while the reunification of the Korean Peninsula had no obvious benefit for the great powers. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the pattern of division of North and South Korea did not change. Governments on both sides are convinced that they have enough legitimacy not to collapse on their own initiative.
However, the experience of German reunification also had after-effects. Although Germany was reunified in 1990, the economy of East Germany lagged behind that of West Germany, and popular satisfaction with reunification was not high. This discontent continues even today, waning enthusiasm for reunification between North and South Korea.
Although South Korea's economy is relatively prosperous, there is a huge gap between rich and poor internally, and most of the Korean economy is in the hands of Western consortiums. Under these circumstances, the South Korean people are unwilling to use their own money to support North Korea's economic construction, and the North Korean regime is unwilling to accept South Korea's propaganda for reunification.
Taken together, the prospects for the reunification of North and South Korea have become more complicated in the current international landscape. Although there is a common history and culture between the two countries, political, economic and geopolitical factors make it difficult to achieve unification. In today's world, the reunification of North and South Korea not only involves both sides, but is also influenced and constrained by foreign powers, making this issue more complicated and intractable.
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