Why cannot Seoul and Pyongyang find compromise for improving their rel

[CuriousMember]

Now I think it's become obvious to everyone that current authorities of South Korea will put its veto to any conciliatory actions from their Northern neighbors' side. This apparent from recent Pyongyang's attempts to reopen Kaesong industrial region, one of the key symbols of successful cooperation between North and South Korean big business(www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/north-korea/130910/) , that have met with Seoul's plans to freeze again Kaesong Industrial Complex's activity, as it becomes an important source of hard currency for Kim Jong Un's regime. This is evidenced by South Korean immediate rejection to co-host the 2018 Olympic Games as it has been proposed by North Korea's member of the International Olympic Committee (www.wilsoncenter.org/article/north-korea-and-the-2018-olympic-games) recently. Why?
On the one hand South Korea has half a mind to revive the monolithic Korea's State, but on the other hand it is evident that Seoul has presentiment of growing discontent on the part of its US allies, isn't it? Obviously Washington continues to bear pressure on Seoul to join the US economic sanctions against Kim Jong Un's regime, as one of the main US enemies in this region. And most likely South Korean authorities simply fear to do any steps that will be unacceptable for their US partners now, eh?

[Michael Hardner]

Why do you say 'freeze again' ?

NK caused the closure.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region

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North Korea is now using some of its citizens to post on random western online forums to change the view of North Korea in the west?

Good luck with that.

For your sake, I hope that eventually the North Korean regime will end and that North Korea will eventually be able to follow the path of economic development that South Korea took (going from one of the poorest countries to one of the richest countries in less than 50 years).

I wish your country freedom & prosperity.

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[Rue]

North Korea is a 4th world state. It has people so hungry they have had to resort what Romania and some other bankrupt countries did and that is eat human bodies. It has people starving to death from no food. Their are villages where people starve.

Even if South Korea wanted to accept a moral responsibility to absorb its Northern neighbour it would be looking at a major

social change for people unaccustomed to food let alone freedom.

There would be huge medical, socio-political and economic challenges.

Now mind you West Germany absorbed its East with many saying it would drag them down and they managed.

Koreans are resourceful and they could be up to the challenge but before that happens North Korea is right now where Albania was before it fell-a closed country to the world with a very bizarre and perverted manner of control of the masses.

In North Korea's case it is far more extensive than Albania's but Romania offers a glimpse of how such regimes fall.

The military runs North Korea. This so called dynasty are a bunch of puppets.

The little fat boy has no thought. He is a robot with flesh.

This military will fall the same way all do, because of internal corruption. That won't happen until China says so.

China will not say so. So all wait. China's border eventually will be allowed to be used to send in Korean operatives.

Its only a matter of time. China no longer trusts the nuclear politics of Korea. Its more concerned with Japan and Taiwan.

It has no time to baby sit Korea.

China calls the shots on North Korea. As long as it does South Korea can not do much but run itself as best it can.