Editing German reunification (section)

==Comparison==
{{see also|List of national border changes since World War I}}
[[File:Yemen Unification 1990.JPG|thumb|The [[Yemeni unification|unification]] of [[Yemen Arab Republic|North Yemen]] and [[South Yemen]] to form [[Yemen|present-day Yemen]] on 22 May 1990]]
[[File:Unification flag of Korea (pre 2009).svg|thumb|[[Korean Unification Flag]] (1991–present)]]
Germany was not the only country that had been divided into two states (1949–1990) due to the [[Cold War]]. [[Division of Korea|Korea]] (1945–present), [[Two Chinas|China]] (1949–present), [[Yemeni unification|Yemen]] (1967–1990), and [[1954 Geneva Conference|Vietnam]] (1954–1976) were or remain separated through the establishment of "Western-(free) [[Capitalist]]" and "Eastern-Communist" zones or former occupations.

Korea and Vietnam suffered severely from this division in the [[Korean War]] (1950–1953) and [[Vietnam War]] (1955–1975) respectively, which caused heavy economic and civilian damage.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} However, German separation did not result in another war.

Moreover, Germany is the only one of these countries that has managed to achieve a peaceful reunification without subsequent violent conflict. For instance, Vietnam achieved reunification after the war under the communist government of [[North Vietnam]] in [[Fall of Saigon|1976]], and Yemen achieved peaceful reunification in 1990 but then suffered a [[Yemeni Civil War (1994)|civil war]] which delayed the reunification process. [[North Korea|North]] and [[South Korea]] as well as [[China|Mainland China]] and [[Taiwan]] still struggle with high political tensions and huge economic and social disparities, making a possible reunification an enormous challenge.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bennett |first=Bruce W. |date=2013-09-19 |publisher=RAND Corporation |title=Preparing for the Possibility of a North Korean Collapse |url=https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR331.html |language=en |access-date=6 March 2022 |archive-date=30 November 2022 |isbn=978-0-8330-8172-8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130000851/https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR331.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/sites/sciencespo.fr.ceri/files/schubert.pdf|title=The European dimension of German-Taiwanese relations – a critical assessment|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426105045/https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/sites/sciencespo.fr.ceri/files/schubert.pdf|archive-date=26 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> With China, the [[Taiwan independence movement]] makes Chinese unification more difficult. East and West Germany today also still have differences in economy and social ideology, similar to [[Northern, Central and Southern Vietnam|North and South Vietnam]], a legacy of the separation that the German government is trying to equalize.