Even though the North is now reckoned to have enough food to survive, albeit miserably, for another four months, most South Koreans are terrified that their northern neighbour will collapse into their laps much as East Germany collapsed into West Germany's, and that South Korea will find it even harder than West Germany did to meet the enormous costs and social strains of unification.
In 1989, East Germans on foot and in cars began arriving in West Germany and West Berlin only hours after the East German government threw open its border to the West.
Back in 1975, the government adopted a policy to become fully self-sufficient in nuclear technology and signed an agreement with Germany (West Germany at the time) for the supply of eight 1300 megawatt nuclear units over the courrse of 15 years.
See North Korea and Cuba, or for that matter compare North Korea with South Korea, or the old East Germany with the old West Germany.
On July 24th, 1948, the Soviets closed the rail and road links between western Germany and west Berlin, located deep within the Soviet zone.
North Korea's GDP per head is about 6% that of South Korea's (see chart), which is far lower than East Germany's was compared with West Germany when the Berlin Wall collapsed.
Instead, Kohl's government mistakenly imposed an absolutely unaffordable welfare- state structure, including too-heavy taxes, on the former East Germany, making impossible the kind of resurgence West Germany experienced after Erhard's reforms.
Westerwelle pointed to Germany's own debt woes in the wake of West Germany's reunification with East Germany during the 1990s.
In the economic sphere, it should be recognized in the West, and particularly in West Germany, that the technical structure of current Soviet-West German trade and financial relations is similar to the bilateral trade agreement of 1939.
East Germany portrayed its citizens as co-victims of Nazism and, unlike West Germany, did not own up to German responsibility for the Holocaust.
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He then fled to West Germany, where he collaborated with fellow artist Sigmar Polke.
In the 1970s, Vietnamese people came to both East and West Germany in large numbers.
Turkey, they point, was a loyal member of Nato even before the former West Germany.
In West Germany, Imhausen transferred equipment associated with the manufacture of chemical weapons to Libya.
West Germany, for example, abandoned its pebble-bed research programme after problems with a demonstration reactor.
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It is imperial Prussia that he seems to admire, not earnest, consensual West Germany.
In the early 1970s, West Germany planned to build cities shaped like funnels.
Nevertheless, West Germany was encouraged to recognise the Holocaust and compensate the victims of Nazi crimes.
The task would make West Germany's absorption of East Germany look like a doddle.
He fled to West Germany, settling in Pforzheim, another traditional center of German watchmaking.
In 1990, East and West Germany formally united at midnight, burying 45 years of Cold War division.
She traveled to West Germany in 1982 for medical care with the help of a foreign journalist.
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Argentina regrouped to advance to the final, setting up a rematch of the 1986 final against West Germany.
The Christian Democrats, for instance, scored 37 percent support in West Germany but just 25 in the East.
Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick when England beat West Germany 4-2 to win the World Cup in 1966.
By way of comparison, West Germany is spending approximately as much for its own work on an aerospace plane.
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Our successful occupations of Japan and West Germany enabled democracy to be established.
He remained at large until 1979 when West Germany put him on trial.
German reunification has cost the former West Germany about 5% of GDP a year, with no end in sight.
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Formed in 1950, its original purpose was to prevent former Nazis and communists from undermining West Germany's new democracy.
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