First, Economic cooperation between South Korean and North Korea is a method to relieve difference between them. South Korean and North Korea can relieve the difference not only by economic communication but also by political communication and negotiation required during the process of cooperation. The case of Germany, for example, East Germany and West Germany signed many treaties for economic integration including <4 Stage Unification Plan>and <Convention about currency, economy, and social assurance alliance>. As a result, West Germany could make economic integration possible such as reconstruction of economy and reorganization of industrial economic structure. This shows that there was political communication through economic cooperation between East Germany and West Germany. Also, Korea peninsula can elicit exchange of various fields from economic cooperation. Now, South Korea and North Korea are operating 개성공단. Although 개성공단 was closed temporarily, it reoperated thanks to a proposal of comprehensive meeting between two Korea by both Korea. Like this, economic cooperation can alleviate difference by leading political communication and consent.
Second, economic cooperation can recognize an importance of market economy to North Korea. Before the unification of Germany, East German have already aware of inefficiency of socialist market economy. Accordingly, many East German emigrated to West Germany and East Germany lost labor force. After September 1989, financial condition got worse and worse because of demonstration and sudden increase of emigrants. So, demonstration was spread and the situation could not settle the dust without bloody suppression. There was no executive of communist regime who strongly wants to remain the regime. In this situation, the government of West Germany linked these to unification with firm will and object after the collusion of the Berlin Wall. This was the result of East German's the awareness of perfect democratic system and prosperous economy and awareness that capitalism is necessary. North Korean can also notice that they can solve economic problem through market economy. Thus, people will demand change of regime. It leads to the situation that autocracy collapse unevitably. It is difficult for North Korean to educate market economy system. But, they can know the system with economic cooperation as a duck takes to water.
Third, North Korea can have degree of interdependence with South Korea. North Korea mostly depend on China and will be subject to China deeply as times goes by if this situation is remained. According to CIA, almost all of the import and export of North Korea in 2010 was done with China. China has provided food and crude and North Korea tries to solve the economic problem through the interchange with China. So, economic cooperation between North Korea and South Korea is nothing more than interchane in name only. To solve this matter, South Korean government should make economic cooperation which can penetrate into North Korean economy, not a just simple support. It can make higher interdependence and closely united each other.
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