I would imagine integrating North Koreans into the South would be far more difficult than the reunification of Germany. The technological and health gap alone is huge and even their language has started to drift apart.
I've read about the sad state of escaped North Koreans. They are provided a "life starting" package from the South Korean government, but sometimes to get out of North Korea they have to promise to give some of that money to the people smuggling them out. There are also a lot of scams that North Koreans don't know to be wary of, and there was even a report of someone going back to North Korea after being scammed and becoming a propagandist on their national television to tell everyone about how South Korea is full of scams and liars, and North Korea is way better.
I_Am_Nous|2 years ago