Reunification?

Here is an interesting op-ed on the possibility of Korean reunification in the current political climate. Writing as if looking back from the future, the author claims that the event

that signaled the change of historical tide in the Korean Peninsula came on July 22 from Shenyang, China [when] The Chinese government made an extraordinary decision that it would recognize the North Korean defectors who snuck into the U.S. Consulate General in Shenyang and demanded political asylum as refugees, and allowed their departure to the United States.

This leads, the author imagines, to the dissolution of the N. Korean regime, "as a small hole in a dike leads to the demolition of the whole embankment". It was an interesting piece.

Also, here is a really good novella outlining the various positions on the matter. It is interesting to note that the best things I have read so far on reunificaiton are fictional. Perhaps the issue is too dear to the Korean heart to be treated strictly analytically.