Perhaps the main reason reunification seems unlikely is that many powerful forces would have much to lose. The military-industrial complex would suffer enormously, particularly in America—something that was evident in the dramatic drop in share prices of Lockheed Martin when President Moon meet Kim Jong-un in April 2018. Japan doesn’t want it to happen either, because it would make Korea more of an economic and potentially military threat. China would probably prefer the peninsula to remain divided too, all the better to threaten Seoul, hold Pyongyang to account, and keep America and Japan at
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