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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (13010)	10/13/2006 11:30:15 AM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

"The likely alternative, of course, is continued oppression and starvation of the 23 million Koreans in the north. If this is what their cousins in the south prefer, it doesn't speak well of the latter's national character." Wow, Peter! You can't mean that. What would you say about the US providing such support to Mexico? Would our unwillingness to support every Mexican man, woman, and child "speak poorly" about OUR national character? There have been three generations of N Koreans growing up with a continuing lambast of propaganda against the South, and against America. Those are not necessarily people who will willingly merge with the South. S Korea is only beginning to advance into the "First World" of global economics, and such a merger would throw them back 20 years economically. If an unwillingness to go from economic well being back into poverty doesn't "speak well" for them, show me a nation that would be willing to accept such a decline. The closest thing to that I can think of is the merger of the two Germanies, a totally dissimilar situation WRT economies.