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	<description>the DMZ will not last forever... or will it?</description>
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		<title>North Korea: cheap labor and land</title>
		<link>http://koreanunification.net/2007/11/24/north-korea-cheap-labor-and-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon this extract from a Reuters report on the re-establishment of rail links says a lot about what drives South Korean unification policy: Cargo trains will cross the heavily fortified border dividing North and South Korea every day from next month, restoring a link severed for more than half a century, South Korea&#8217;s Unification Ministry said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ministers of Unification (1969 &#8211; 2007)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ROK Economy and Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does this long list of South Korean ministers responsible for unification tell you? Has there ever been a period in which the civil service has been led by a minister for unification for more than a few years? Or does it say more about the position of &#8216;unification minister&#8217; and the fact that policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lankov on Korean unification</title>
		<link>http://koreanunification.net/2007/11/15/lankov-on-korean-unification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divided States Theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good article by Andrei Lankov on Korean unification over at Asia Times. To sum it all up &#8211; Romania style collapse is coming soon to country near you (if you&#8217;re in South Korea). Give it a read! Share This Sphere: Related Content]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Reunification cost&#8217; is inappropriate</title>
		<link>http://koreanunification.net/2007/11/01/reunification-cost-is-inappropriate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ROK Unification Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Reunification cost&#8217; is not an inappropriate term in the context of current ROKG unification policy according to a recent article on korea.net. With an underlying faith that North Korea will not collapse, the article states: Think tanks, major financial institutions and individuals are busy estimating how much it may cost to reunite South and North Korea. They often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to pay for Korean unification</title>
		<link>http://koreanunification.net/2007/10/31/how-to-pay-for-korean-unification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ROK Economy and Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With estimates on the cost of unification providing such alarming figures (as in the last post), it is natural for people to wonder where the money will come from. A paper by Yang Un-Chol at the Sejong Institute gives a good summary of how this could be achieved. Amongst the methods, he lists: Inter-Korean cooperation projects. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unification Costs</title>
		<link>http://koreanunification.net/2007/10/30/unification-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ROK National Assembly Special Committee on Budget and Accounts has estimated that unification could cost around 1 trillion dollars &#8211; yes, 1 trillion &#8211; with the cost increasing further over time. The report notes the difference in timing. If unification occurs in 2015, it could cost around $858 billion over 10 years to absorb the North. If unification occurs in 2030, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korean War Peace Treaty</title>
		<link>http://koreanunification.net/2007/10/29/korean-war-peace-treaty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Song Min-Soon will visit the United States next month to discuss a Korean War peace treaty to replace the armistice. There has already been, and there will be much more, talk on the role of US forces on the Korean peninsula after the signing of a peace treaty. On Friday, Foreign Minister Song stated that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He didn&#8217;t speak much but his hands were warm&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://koreanunification.net/2007/10/27/he-didnt-speak-much-but-his-hands-were-warm/</link>
		<comments>http://koreanunification.net/2007/10/27/he-didnt-speak-much-but-his-hands-were-warm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inter-Korean Summit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know, but I think this may be going a bit far&#8230; Lee Su-Hoon, chairman of the Presidential Committee on the Northeast Asia Cooperation Initiative in an article on Korea.net gives his impressions of Kim Jong Il: Kim Jong-il, the leader of North Korea too showed calmness in his posture. But there was strength in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Man-Bok and the ten truths</title>
		<link>http://koreanunification.net/2007/10/25/kim-man-bok-and-the-ten-truths/</link>
		<comments>http://koreanunification.net/2007/10/25/kim-man-bok-and-the-ten-truths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inter-Korean Summit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Man-Bok the Director of the ROK National Intelligence Service (NIS) has an interesting piece entitled &#8216;Ten truths of the inter-Korean summit in words of NIS chief&#8217;. Kim refutes some of the popular criticisms regarding the summit and attempts to highlight its significance. Here&#8217;s a taste: It was during my visit to Pyongyang in early August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-opting the North Korean elite into economic reform</title>
		<link>http://koreanunification.net/2007/10/08/co-opting-the-north-korean-elite-into-economic-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://koreanunification.net/2007/10/08/co-opting-the-north-korean-elite-into-economic-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dilworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;a a good article in the Chosun Ilbo today on the role of investors in contributing to inter-Korean reconciliation. Although I can&#8217;t say that I agree with the whole article, which with lines such as: One of the facts confirmed in the second inter-Korean summit is that North Korea is willing to push ahead with [...]]]></description>
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