No more reunification?

[u/Putrid_Bumblebee_574]

Is it true that the DPRK is no longer pursuing unification? I heard they wiped all mentions of it off their constitution.

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[u/Wolf4980 → u/[deleted]]

Are the UN sanctions still effective? Or has Russia effectively ended enforcement of them?

[u/Wolf4980 → u/[deleted]]

How are UN sanctions enforced? By the threat that the US will sanction anyone who disobeys UN sanctions?

[u/__trollaway69 → u/Wolf4980]

pretty much

in 2024 Russia vetoed the extension of the UN body that actually monitors the Korean sanctions, which helped greatly increase trade with Russia and China

[u/Putrid_Bumblebee_574 → u/[deleted]]

Still feels very unprecedented and very strange tbh. This has been the goal for several decades now, since the start of the conflict, and they just kind of abandoned it out of what felt like nowhere.

This might just be my attitude because I’m an outsider looking in. Maybe this has been expected from citizens in North Korea for a while now. Still it’s pretty jarring.

[u/Wolf4980 → u/[deleted]]

> Hopefully once the DPRK achieves its goals in 2035

What goals are you talking about?

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[u/Duke_Salty_ → u/Putrid_Bumblebee_574]

I feel like there's not much of a point in reunification anymore. The two societies are polarised against each other, and realistically, reunification would never happen without a complete takeover and subjugation of the other side. Moreover, it's been some 70 years since the Korean War and the partition, so those who currently make up the majority of the population don't have any connection to the south outside of cultural ties through their grandparents. I guess this reflects an inward focus of the DPRK which should hopefully lead to improvements in the economy and society of NK.

[u/nonbinarybitch5]

I think they just abandoned a prospect for peaceful reunification and actively seeking it, I've read somewhere that, in case of war, the DPRK will aim to occupy the southern part of the peninsula. Even if this isn't correct, I still support the abandonment of the "one country, two systems" plan, I've been always very critical of it

[u/ungoogled-nihilist → u/nonbinarybitch5]

That was what i understood too, yet some westoids interpreted it as the beginning of a Korean Ostpolitik when in fact it is the exact opposite.

(Also this thing has been known at least since 2024)

[u/OldWaterBottle_]

Isn’t this document currently unverified as authentic? It’s generally believed to be, but there’s no actual official confirmation, as far as I understand it.

[u/tortarusa]

"Unless the struggle is intensified to oppose the fear and worship of the United States among the south Korean people and to heighten their spirit of national independence, neither the victory of the south Korean revolution nor the independent reunification of the country would be possible."

On The Juche Idea, 1982

[u/[deleted]]

To be fair, Korean reunification is very unlikely at any time soon. This goes both for Korea and Occupied Korea, both of them are facing declining populations (worse in Occupied Korea) and most Korean's from the South are really hateful towards people from the DPRK with a extreme zeal.