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Korean divide lives on 60 years after end of war

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By JEAN H. LEE

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Unfortunately, it will continue another 100 years just as the Japan's involvement in China and Korea has gone on and on for a 100 years. The advantage of young students not learning history is: Someday people will forget and forgive what happened. History cannot be changed no matter how hard people want to impose their interpretation of it.

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It's ridiculous, and right now it's mostly the fault of North Korea. Most South Koreans don't care to reunify, because that would burden the South too much. And the North Koreans continue to suffer under the Kim regime, and North Korea continues to blame America for virtually everything from electric shortages to why they can't reunify (but they don't really want to reunify).

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Korea will be divided for the next century too. There can be no peace for people who have so much hatred and insecurity. First find peace with yourselves then maybe you can move forward as a race.

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Unifying North and South Korea at this point would be like unifying America and Mexico. They've become two very different cultures.

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History cannot be changed; what happened, happened no matter how much they try to rewrite it. Unfortunately it is a Korean (and Chinese) trait that they are unable to learn from history, put it behind them and move on as most other countries have. No other countries outside of the Middle East wear their hatreds on their sleeves. It is hard to imagine a country that has been in a state of civil war for more than 60 years, and it is even harder to imagine North Korea claiming a "victory" when they completely failed in their objective, which was to take over South Korea. In 1950 South Korea was the poor, agricultural part of Korea and the North was the rich, industrial part. Today North Korea is one of the most impoverished countries in the world, kept on life support by their only ally, China.

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A Realist

Unfortunately it is a Korean (and Chinese) trait that they are unable to learn from history, put it behind them and move on as most other countries have.

A "realist" says that it is a certain trait of a certain ethnicity... right.

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NeonFractionJul. 27, 2013 - 10:03AM JST

Unifying North and South Korea at this point would be like unifying America and Mexico. They've become two very different cultures.

Well, I am not so sure about it. You may be right, but Germany seems to be doing okay now.

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"Thomas AndersonJul. 27, 2013 - 03:11PM JST

A Realist

Unfortunately it is a Korean (and Chinese) trait that they are unable to learn from history, put it behind them and move on as most other countries have.

A "realist" says that it is a certain trait of a certain ethnicity... right."

I do not know what you are trying to say; I wish you would be more clear. If you are presuming that I am saying that because I am Japanese, I am not. I am merely pointing out the attitudes of Korea and China who seem to be still fighting WWII. Most civilized countries seem to be able to put the past behind them (the EU, for example, US-Japan, )Japan and all Asian countries but for Korea and China, even the US-Vietnam), I conclude that it is a Korean and Chinese trait that they are unable to do. Or is it just propaganda by their governments in order to score political points with their 'nationalist' supporters at home?

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