Resolved: North Korea should reunite with South Korea

Both my opponent and I seem to agree that communism is a problem in N. Korea. N. Korea has a desperate economy, starving people, and a megalomaniac dictator, Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-il's father, Kim Il-sung, is dubbed eternally the leader of N. Korea and worshipped as such. The country has problems with torture, starvation from a horrible economy, and isolation from the rest of the world. FIRST SOLUTION NEEDED FROM MY OPPONENT: The first problem my opponent has to solve is the problem of combining the two states. Of course, everyone knows that N. Korea has a problem with its leader's worship (just another fuzzy form of god-worship but in the form of a human-being. Another very obvious example would be Stalinist Russia). Because of this, the N. Korean leadership will hardly think of giving up it's established power. It fought a war to keep its communism, and has let its people suffer just to appease itself. Unless another war (or civil war within N. Korea, or workers strikes like in Poland and Russia) is started to uproot the government there, N. Korea will remain under this communist control. Because talks will not have Kim Jong-il relinquish his unlimited power in the state, and physically uprooting him seems to be the only plausible solution at the moment, we can move on to: why would we remove the troops then? If workers strike, they will need the troops to help protect them if they need to flee. If a war breaks out, the troops will need to be there to protect the South, and again, fleeing refugees. SECOND SOLUTION NEEDED FROM MY OPPONENT: The problems of socialism are many. Why should we remove the capitalism in Southern Korea when the country is flourishing so well? The economy of South Korea is the 4th largest in Asia and the 12th largest in the world as of 2007. Why would we want to take this booming economy away from South Korea when socialism would rid the country of this? Another problem of socialism is the hurt it causes to individual rights. When all of the wealth in the country must be distributed by the government (very much like communism). A critique on Socialism was offered by Friedrich Hayek (a famous British Economist and Political Philosopher) when it was brought up as a plausible idea for Britain. "…a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance." (Source: Alan O. Ebenstein. Friedrich Hayek: A Biography. (2003). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226181502 p.137) This, to me, sounds very much like the problems already present in N. Korea. So, my opponent made a mistake by wanting to combine Capitalism and Communism (which, will NOT and SHOULD NOT combine to make Socialism). What S. Korea has escaped is the manic power of its government over every little thing that they do. This is the main problem with N. Korea's economy [this control]. A problem to its growth, being no incentives for working more or working better, is what communism and socialism doesn't help remedy. Only Capitalism gives workers incentives for better, more productive work. If a worker is given incentives for their work (example: more money that they can use to aid themselves,) the economy would no doubt rise accordingly. If a hard worker is getting the same pay and same benefits as a worker who is doing the minimum, they will eventually stop working to their best and do what the other guy is. Why not? They are getting the same things. So, my opponent must explain to me how we will remove the dictatorship from N. Korea, how a socialist government will not harm S. Korea's booming Capitalistic economy (take as example Western and Eastern Germany‘s problem with Socialism - and how Eastern Germany had to invest so much money into bringing its economy to the level of the West, and how they finally decided that Capitalism, not Socialism, was best for the country), and how removal of troops will keep S. Korea safe from N. Korean corruption. In my opinion, the best solution would be as follows: 1. Aid the opposition inside N. Korea by encouraging the people to peacefully strike against the government (such like what happened in Poland with the Union workers striking against communistic economic laws and winning). If that doesn't work (and gets violent), aid them in a civil war against their government. 2. Keep U.S. (and other NATO nation's) troops that are already on the border in order to protect S. Korea from any troops that wish to advance into it, and also as an aid for fleeing N. Korean refugees. 3. Once the government has been taken over, encourage Capitalism in N. Korea (if they wish to keep N. Korea as a separate country), OR help integrate N. and S. Korea into a Capitalistic country if they wish to combine into one country. In my next argument, I will have a testimony from a friend of mine who was a U.S. Army soldier stationed on the border of N. and S. Korea, and his thoughts (from first hand experience) about what the troops should be doing there, what they are doing to help, and how the problems can be solved using the steps I have presented. Cheers, Vi