That’s the question posed by Tom Coyner’s Korean Economic Reader today, prompted by an article in today’s JoongAng Daily. Part of Seoul’s strategy has been to coax Pyongyang out of isolation through increased aid and economic engagement. China’s engagement will logically have the same effect. But will the end result be a more healthy North, able to engage with the South on terms of less economic inequality, and thus make reunification easier; or will it will be to tie the North more closely to China thus reinforcing the current division?
Update 5 January 2008 - The Joongang link no longer works and I’m afraid I’m unable to find the original article.
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