Chapter 551 551 Proposal for the Merger of the Houses and South Korea (I)

The first question for North and South Korea to move toward reunification is what the name of the new country will be. Except for East Asian countries, most of the national languages in the world are partially North and South Korean, such as English, which is preceded by Korea and North and South. However, in the East Asian cultural circle, the importance of fame is very great, and if the new country is called North Korea, South Koreans will definitely not want it, and if it is called South Korea, North Koreans will definitely not want it.

Therefore, when Kim Il Sung was still alive, he proposed that the name of the country should be called the Democratic Federal Republic of Korea. However, there is also a historical difference between North and South Korea, with North Korea believing that the first unified state in the history of the peninsula was Wang's Goryeo, while South Korean historians believe that it was unified Silla. Moreover, Goryeo started in the north and Silla started in the south, which is again a directional thing.

Of course, in fact, the name Goryeo was spread all over the world a thousand years ago, and now most countries call North Korea, which is actually a transliteration of Goryeo.

Leaving aside the issue of the country's name, North Korea itself agreed to reform its own political system, and the Workers' Party will transition from Koreanized GC doctrine to social democracy, and to a certain extent, accept the multi-party system, and formulate a roadmap for multi-party democratic elections, so as to bring North Korea closer to today's "mainstream" political system. After the opening of the ****, North Korea stipulated that only people with North Korean household registration can have the right to vote and stand for election, and even South Koreans need 15 years to obtain full political rights if they want to become North Korean citizens.

Of course, if South Koreans want to intervene in North Korean politics, they can also use such as co-optation, economic means, etc., but in this regard, North Korea has also taken a certain precaution and tried to ensure the independence of local politics.

The DPRK has carried out major reforms and concessions in its own political system, which makes it necessary for the ROK to make concessions on certain issues, and the most important and least important one is that Kim Tae-jung personally nodded and agreed to the reunification of the new Korean nation-state, which will be called the Korean Federation, and change the Republic of Korea to an administrative region of the Korean Federation, which will be called the South Korean Administrative Region. Similarly, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has been renamed the North Korean Administrative Region.

Speaking of which, in fact, South Koreans do not necessarily reject the word North Korea completely, they claim to be ethnic Koreans, and the country's largest circulation newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, also uses North Korean headings. In addition, Samhan itself refers to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, and has never referred to the whole of Korea. In the Chinese circle, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are accustomed to calling North Korea ****, but in fact, it is taken for granted and ideologicalized, and lacks historical common sense.

The newly established Korean Federation will allocate relatively large autonomy to administrative regions, and in fact, there will not be much change in the internal affairs of North and South Korea. The main feature of a unified state is the establishment of a central federal government that unites the North and the South; a unified representative body, the National Assembly; a unified national army; There is also a fundamental constitution that is unified and above the local law.

On the formation of the central government, there was a rather fierce debate between the DPRK and the ROK. South Korea, for its part, supports universal suffrage based on population and the election of the president of the Korean Federation, who appoints cabinet members and is accountable to the president, using the current democratic system in South Korea. First of all, South Korea has a larger population than North Korea, and it is more likely to win the presidential seat, and then the cabinet appointed by the president is basically South Koreans, so the power of the central power is basically obtained by South Koreans, which will inevitably make the North Korean side extremely dissatisfied.

The plan proposed by the North Korean side is the plan given by Qi Yiming before, that is, let the National Assembly conduct an indirect election to elect a president, if the president is from North Korea in one term, the next term will be South Korean, and the number of other cabinet members in the north and south is equal, and the list will be provided by each faction and appointed by the president. In this way, a relative balance can be generally achieved.

When relations between the North and the South are harmonious, such a system is relatively easy for both sides to accept, but if there is antagonism between the North and the South, serious prevarication and prevarication may occur, causing the government to idle and administrative inefficiency. Of course, with the development of time, there may be a convergence of interests and political views between the two administrative regions of the north and the south, so in the congressional election, the barrier between the north and the south will actually be broken down by the parties, and the plan for the rotation of the north and the south should almost be changed to the rotation of political parties.

There is no reason for the North to accept South Korea's universal suffrage for the president based on the population base, and South Korea also knows that it is almost impossible for North Korea to accept this system, which is obviously its own flesh, and after two days of entanglement, South Korea relented and promised to keep an open mind to other political systems.

Originally, some officials in South Korea were very arrogant and believed that North Korea should be annexed to South Korea like East Germany, abolish its own currency, and close down its own government and people's assembly, but it is clear that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is not the same as that of the two Germanys, and that North Korea wants reunification, but its dignity and interests cannot be damaged in the slightest. After figuring this out, South Korean negotiators did not dare to use too much coercion, because Kim Tae-jung said that if anyone put forward something that led to North Korea's withdrawal from the talks, he would be a sinner for national reconciliation and national reunification, and he would sue the official for dereliction of duty and demand that he be held to the end.

The DPRK's proposal for the establishment of a central government was finally adopted by both sides after certain revisions, because with their political wisdom, there could be no better plan, and it was not an easy task to satisfy and compromise both sides.

The National Assembly of the Korean Federation will be unicameral, with half of the seats from the North and the South, forming a situation of equal strength. Half of the members of Congress are still re-elected every two years, and the balance of power has been maintained. This parliament is a unified universal suffrage, but because of this strange half-and-half setting, it is very likely that the bill will be extremely difficult to pass later.

There are not too many waves in the formulation of the constitution, and issues such as the government and parliament are the content of the constitution, except for things like the social system, basically the constitution of each country is used by another country, and there will not be any big chaos.

At the present stage, the reunification of the Korean Peninsula will not be carried out in a particularly in-depth manner, and the North and South Koreas still enjoy relatively large powers, and it is likely that there will be a situation in which the head of the administrative district may have more power than the president, and if the policy proposed by the central government is contrary to the administrative region below, the head of the administrative district who is not open-minded may refuse to implement it.

In order for the power of the central government to be blessed and protected, naturally the federal army needs to be unified, and the guns are in the hands of the federal government, so the federal government will naturally speak hard. However, on the issue of the military reunification of the Korean Federation, there are even more problems.

In fact, in essence, the duty of a soldier is obedience, and even if a soldier may be born in the north and south, his obedience to the central government is the same. There is not much of a problem with generals coming from more and less backgrounds in the north and south, because in a certain sense, the selection of generals is much more complicated than that of politicians, and the problem of politicians not having the ability is not too big, and if the generals are incompetent, they will really tire the three armies to death.

The biggest differences are a series of issues such as the size of the armed forces and the rebuilding of the command system. Unsurprisingly, North Korea has proposed that if its 1.1 million troops need to be significantly reduced, South Korea must pay enough for demobilization and resettlement, and there is also the unavoidable problem that the US bases in South Korea must be eliminated.

Naturally, South Korean officials have a bit of a big head, but they don't know that their president has already made an agreement with Qi Yiming that once reunification is successful, there will inevitably be no US base left in South Korea. South Korean officials are not stupid, and if they look at the seemingly relaxed but in fact very serious Chinese officials sitting next to them, they understand that China will never allow a reunified North Korea to have the power of the United States on its territory, because that would be inconsistent with China's territorial interests. China itself will not necessarily garrison troops on the Korean Peninsula, but it will not allow Americans to do so.

Similarly, the reunification of the armed forces and the reform of the national defense system are also good news for South Korea, and although the huge defense budget may not necessarily be cut by much, a large number of the armed forces can be eliminated. In the plan, the unified army established by the North and South Korea will be only 450,000 in number, and the initial stage is similar to half and half of the formation, half of the troops are North Koreans, half are South Koreans, they have the same language and culture, although they have different growth experiences, but it is believed that after a certain period of integration, they can also form a stable combat force.

Moreover, what comforts South Korean officials, especially the ruling Commune Party, is that once the national defense of North and South Korea is merged, basically South Korea's painful compulsory military service system will come to an end, and the abolition of the system that has been complained about by countless parents and made young people miserable will inevitably become a huge political bargaining chip for the Commune Party.

It's just that in terms of military equipment and training methods, the two sides have very different attributes. North Korea mostly used Soviet-made weapons, and then it copied or developed its own weapons on the basis of Chinese and Soviet weapons, while South Korea mainly imported them from the United States and other Western countries. Similarly, there are clear differences between the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of training patterns.

This point is actually not very difficult to solve, because China, as the host and mediator, has experience in providing weapons to both sides, and Qi Yiming also hopes to take this opportunity to completely integrate the Korean Federation into China's weapons system. Moreover, China's achievements in military reform and development have attracted worldwide attention, and it is only fitting that China should guide the new country's armed forces in carrying out reforms. Therefore, the DPRK and the ROK agreed that they would send a cadet corps of officers to China to learn from their experiences so that they could learn advanced training and military concepts and build a new national army.