Psychological and Social Destruction

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One of the premises of the current South Korean government’s policies is that they will help achieve a “soft landing” for North Korea. But eight years after the declaration of Sunshine, the North continues to grow markedly poorer, hungrier, and more miserable, and the cost of eventual reunification continues to rise. Among the costs that appears in relatively few estimates for rejoining North and South into a single nation is the North Korean regime’s progressive psychological and social destruction of those whom it does not succeed in destroying physically.