Published on January 23, 2020. This article republishes a chapter originally posted on January 23, 2019, examining scenarios for North-South Korean unification, the revolutionary character of the Moon Jae-in administration, North Korea’s distance from China, and the security implications for Japan and the United States. It interprets the Korean Peninsula through the view that North Korea is an “ancient dynasty” and South Korea an “incompletely modernized state.”

January 23, 2020
The North is plainly an “ancient dynasty,” while the South is an “incompletely modernized state,” and is therefore prone to reverting to antiquity.
Incidentally, the characteristics of antiquity are “despotic rule, a status system, and gigantic structures.”
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In this chapter, I will introduce an excerpt from pages 56 to 57.
The preceding text is omitted.
Fujii
This is Professor Furuta’s specialty, but it is said that Maeng Kyong-il, vice director of North Korea’s United Front Department, went to South Korea as a member of the PyeongChang Olympic delegation and stayed there for nearly a month.
Hasn’t the scenario for North-South unification already been completely discussed?
They are already one, aren’t they?
Furuta
Moon Jae-in thinks of himself and his people as a revolutionary regime that overthrew a tyrannical government through the Candlelight Revolution.
In spirit, they are already the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, note 1.
Fujii
Exactly.
It is a revolutionary regime for destroying the formerly anti-communist “Republic of Korea.”
Therefore, the structure is North and South Korea versus Japan and the United States.
At the stage before unification, the “Koryo Federation,” note 2, would probably integrate security and diplomacy, while the unification of the domestic system would be postponed.
If that happens, North Korea will gain the upper hand.
If they can bring it that far and make the U.S. Forces Korea withdraw, that will be North Korea’s victory.
Furuta
Even if they began a federal system, it would take more than ten years before it became a proper state.
To put it plainly, neither side has the capacity to unify the peninsula.
The North is plainly an “ancient dynasty,” while the South is an “incompletely modernized state,” and is therefore prone to reverting to antiquity.
Incidentally, the characteristics of antiquity are “despotic rule, a status system, and gigantic structures.”
It is completely different from the reunification of East and West Germany.
Besides, one must ask whether they can even get as far as a federal system.
China dislikes North-South unification.
Fujii
That is true.
If there is a subtle difference in temperature between North and South Korea, it is that North Korea wants to keep its distance from China, while South Korea’s Moon Jae-in does not understand this and thinks it is good to be close to China as well.
Moreover, President Moon may even think that getting along with China is useful to North Korea.
Furuta
I think so too.
Because South Korea is a state that became “islandized” at the 38th parallel, it knows nothing at all about China.
Unlike the North, it has no real sense of China.
Fujii
From North Korea’s point of view, it would probably want to say, “Those pro-communist people in the South still do not understand Juche ideology,” wouldn’t it? Laughs.
Furuta
Moon Jae-in does not understand that North Korea has held back China’s influence.
The rest is omitted.