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Simple arithmetic tells us that a reunified Korea , absent any significant prior force reductions , would have 1.85 million men under arms . " It 's wearing people down just the way Korea and Vietnam did , " said Larry Sabato , a political science professor at the University of Virginia and an expert in mid-term elections . Koreas , individually and , at some unpredictable point in the future , together . Since the United States and South Korea have made it clear that U.S. troop presence in Korea is non-negotiable , and both Koreas have now renounced war on the peninsula , some concessions could be made . Further complicating the analysis is the complex interrelationships among the six sets of major power bilateral relationships or , worse yet , the fifteen sets of bilateral relationships that occur when each of the four deals individually with the Republic or Korea ( ROK or South Korea ) and the Democratic Peoples ' Republic of Korea ( DPRK or North Korea ) and the two Koreas deal with one another . But , while there is little doubt that the major powers were primarily responsible ( in varying degrees ) for the Peninsula 's division , I would argue that the principle factor keeping the two Koreas apart today is not the actions or desires of the four powers but the actions and attitudes of the Koreans themselves . For the two Koreas , it may well have been the best news since 50 years . Those who oppose united Korea are afraid that a strong Korea may rock the boat and threaten the good life they have enjoying . The timing of his remarks was somewhat awkward , too , as it came out in the midst of North Korea 's planning of opening the country to the outside . He even printed as evidence a bourgeois magazine 's claim that at the time southern Korea was making a rather bad show of its treatment of starvation compared with Mao 's .