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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (62863)12/23/2002 10:17:12 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The article you posted never said "reunification", it said "detente", quite a different animal.

I had to double check the article as posted because I was certain it contained the word reunification.

South Korea Longs for Reunification With the North By JAMES BROOKE

I think this excerpt however is significant :

In early December, hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the largest anti-American demonstrations in South Korea's history. The trigger for the protests was the acquittal of two United States Army sergeants, who were tried in a military tribunal on charges of negligent homicide after their armored personnel carrier ran over and killed two teenage girls.

There was an enormous outcry in France a few years back when an ambassador to one of the African countries that France is quite lenient and friendly with ran over and killed a couple small children while speeding. He was not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol at the time, and of course enjoyed full diplomatic immunity...

As far as I know nothing ever came of it in the end, and it's still business as usual, but at the time it was a golden opportunity for people to vent any and all racist or other sentiments normally kept well hidden.

I don't have links on hand to what I've read in the past about the legitimate fear South Korea has of any sudden taking down of their "Berlin Wall", but the expense and social disruption given the lessons learned from Germany are making anyone with any sense in South Korea want to move very slowly and deliberately on genuine reunification.

In the end Pyongyang will fall and they will be reunited, but in the end we're all dead too, it could be a long wait - with lots of palm greasing and mind games as you point out along the way.
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