This essay is an analysis of North Korea and South Korea and the task of reunification. Focus lays on the states political systems in a comparative perspective, and the main goal is to lay out the conditions for a potential reunification. A parallel is drawn between possible Korean unification and the actual unification of Germany in 1989, as an attempt to forecast what could be problematic with such an event. The questions that get answered in the study are: "What are the conditions for unification in Korea" and also "What kind of political system does North and South Korea have?" and "How do they compare?" The essay starts with an analysis of the political system in North and South Korea respectively, followed by a comparison of the two c...