The surrender of something attained heroically and at great cost — something to which the well-being of entire generations has been sacrificed — is f… - Brian Reynolds Myers

Seoul doesn't have the will to "De-Kim Il Sungify" North Korea.

As I said, the North Koreans are arming out of the conviction that the U.S.-South Korean alliance and not the South Korean popular will is the main obstacle in the way of a North-dominated re-unification.

The US-ROK alliance’s position on North Korea has been inexorably softening, with only minor and temporary reversals, for over half a century now, while North Korea, arming steadily, has always held fast to its commitment to “final victory,” to unification under its own flag. One need only take a few steps back from the daily news to see where this is headed.