Washington Post (October 18)
2010/ 10/ 19 by jd in Global News
Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria writes that the U.S., China and South Korea need to think hard about “the collapse of North Korea.” The extensive measures Kim Jong Il is taking to shore up his son as successor suggest instability. In addition to a bad economy, food shortages and famine, North Koreans are “beginning to learn more and more about the outside world.” With South Koreans earning $28,100 versus each North Korean’s $1,900, it is only a matter of time before “North Koreans are going to start moving south, to jobs, money, opportunity and freedom.” Unless plans are made now, there will be chaos with potential for “serious geopolitical instability.”
Tags: China, Instability, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, U.S.
