Peace in Han Peninsular- Unification of North and South Korea

Hi, everyone. 

As North Korea has been developing nuclear power, peace in Han Peninsular has also been an international concern.

And both Koreas have tried to unite two Koreas in one country for a long time.

But they are still separated. 

Then, IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE TO UNITE SOUTH AND NORTH KOREA? WHAT IS THE REASON BEHIND THE PARTITIONS OF KOREA?

     As Japan surrendered to two different countries, Soviet Union and the United States, at the end of the Second World War, Korea was also separated to two countries. (Korea was colonized by Japan.) But, the Soviet Union and the U.S. had different ideology- communism and democracy- resulting two Koreas to have different ideology and governments.  Under the different ideology and governments, Korea has been separated for 60 years. And 60 years was long enough to change every single aspects of two Koreas. With different culture and language which are being more and more different, it's also harder to unite each other as time passed.

     In addition to different culture and language they developed, their governments have different idea of unification. 

South Korea's unification policy is "｢민족공동체통일방안&#65379" which was made with citizens' agreement in 1989. It tries to make "national community" with reconciliation and cooperation of two Koreas. Basically, it proposes "one national and one government". (According to this policy, there should be only one government in Korea if South and North Korea unite.) Also, the government established by this policy guarantees individual's freedom, civil rights, and human dignity. For this, government of South Korea has suggested North Korea to give up developing nuclear power and to have open-door-policy. Also, as peaceful unification and peaceful settlement of North Korea's nuclear power development require international cooperation and support, the government has tried to get support from international society.

On the other hand, North Korea's official unification policy is ｢고려민주연방공화국 창립방안&#65379. It proposes "one national, one country, two systems, and two governments" -like a federal. So, it's basically different from that of South Korea and both Koreas didn't get to an agreement yet.

I can't say that it's possible to unite Korea or not. But if you are more interested in unification of Korea and the policies, you can go to South Korean Government's unification affair department homepage (www.unikorea.go.kr).   As it's on English, too, feel free to go to it and learn more :)

Thanks for your interest in unification of Korea.

Also, special thanks to Mayur Dhande for asking me this question and to South Korea's Foreign Affair Department for giving me a help to answer it. :)

Have a great day everyone. 

And feel free to ask any question about Korea :D