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I’d say even that remains the same–what does S. Korea do about reunification except try to hold it off? Prez Roh has even come out and said it should not happen for many, many years. So if reunification ever has a chance, it won’t be decided by Koreans, unless there’s a radical change in the status quo, it will be the U.S. and China that decide.

“…the large majority of G.I.’s return to the states each year embittered, thinking the Koreans unscrupulous, and disliking Korea.”

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“North Korean is a hermit, showing herself principally in audacious incidents, in the frequent exchange of diatribe…”

The not so same:

“There have been occasions of late when small groups of [DPRK] agents have successfully penetrated South Korean territory but, badly misled into believing they would find themselves as fish in revolutionary waters, have instead been quickly exposed by the South Korean citizenry, who are either apathetic or — more often — antipathetic…”

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“The issue of reunification, now twenty-five years old, lies quiet. Among Koreans in the South, no clear attitude has emerged. There has always been the feeling that what the superpowers alone did to Korea, the superpowers alone must undo.”

The end of the article sounds like the author is saying the U.S. was/is in the way of inter-Korean rapprochement.

Really interesting Marmot, thanks.