Crisis in North to increase Korean re-unification costs

The Bank of Korea (BoK) released its latest annual estimates of the North’s economy late last week. In short, the North-South income gap remains massive. The shift away from free market reform in the North and its frostier relations with the rest of the world mean that the economic distress will probably continue to grow. This in turn will lift the costs of eventual re-unification.

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