Seoul is secretly preparing for unification by absorption, in addition to the official unification agenda by agreement, a high ranking official of the unification committee said on March 10.

Unification by absorption typically refers to a scenario in which one Korea collapses, leaving the other half to absorb the governmental structures into its own.

“Absorption unification isn’t something that can’t happen just because you don’t want it to,” Chung Chong-wook, vice chairman of the Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation was reported as saying at a breakfast forum on Tuesday.

“There are a variety of road maps for unification and our