December 2011 will be remembered as the month when the Korean dictator Kim Jong Il died and the month Americans pulled out out of Iraq after a 9 year long occupation.
Is there hope for a unified Korean peninsular? The same question can be ask, 25 years ago, is there a hope for a unified Germany. And yes, what about a "unified" China? (Mainland China and Taiwan). I am not prepared to go into the myriad of factors that led to the collapse of East Germany given no ostensible parallel can be drawn with the current Korean or Chinese situation.
My contention is that a regime change is an inevitable proposition. Why? Because the events in the 21 century told us Marxism has failed, utterly failed in the face of capitalism. (Although after spending the last week in getting familiar with the Melbourne real estate scene I think I know what Carl Marx was on about when he described "capitalism" as "dictatorship of the bourgeoise")
The real question is whether a war is necessary element in the unification process - if only we have all learnt from the atrocious wars in the last century.
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