The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (2013)
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overall the article is bang on, the only people that benefit is north koreans and maybe south koreans but give the reunification a few decades or more, the end result is a shift of the status quo of regional power for neighboring countries.
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and what makes you think they dont already?
According to Wikipedia (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region), Hyundai built it, so they know of its existence.
Actually, unification might make this less attractive, as wages likely would rise in the North, changing the economics of doing this kind of stuff (I guess a bit in the way the abolition of slavery changed economies)
Most of Russia's population is in the west http://www.mapsofworld.com/russia/thematic-maps/population-d...
Korea isn't directly connected to Russia, Edit: correction it shares a border for roughly 9 Miles on the NE coast of NK https://www.google.com/maps/@50.544202,110.7707214,4z
This is why Russia is more involved with eastern europe and China rather than Korea and most activities in the Pacific. Unless it's stationing battle ships off the Australian coast during a visit by Putin [1]
[1] http://www.inquisitr.com/1606377/russia-warships-near-austra...
Most people live in russia proper. Siberia and the russian far east is not real russian land.
> Korea isn't directly connected to Russia https://www.google.com/maps/@50.544202,110.7707214,4z
North Korea is directly connected to russia. They share a border...
> This is why Russia is more involved with eastern europe and China rather than Korea and most activities in the Pacific.
Russia is involved in the denuclearization talks. Also, they are involved in the pacific. They hold countless war games to ward off threats from china, japan and north korea. Their main naval port is in the pacific.