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Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

Yes -- why allow Koreans to play what they want and make up their own minds about things. Much better to treat them like small children who don't know enough not to eat thumbtacks.

The unparalleled brilliance of the Sunshine Policy continues.

Pligganease · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...

canuckistan · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject:

I can't disagree with the SK on doing this since they're serious about reunification. Have you ever asked your students what they think of North Koreans? It's generally pretty condescending. I guess it comes with the territory of being "enemies" for so long. This is not bode well for an easy social transition in regards to unification. You just know that if they ever do unify, the NK's are going to be treated by the SK's like the (insert 3rd world country here) gardeners and maids for a long, long time afterwards. Many social challenges to integration after unification.
East Germany is a good example.

Continuing to import vid games that send the subliminal message to SK's that NK is the enemy is not going to help that process along. I say it's a righteous move by the gov't.

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject:

Oh, how the USA should leave this place immediately.....

Just who is the "real enemy" now? I can about guess. The same people that made their fairy-tale lives here a reality.

When the SK's are suddenly forced to pony-up tax money to fund their own military defending their own country entirely, and have to deal with Kim Jung Il on their own, then maybe they will see the light. Of course, they are welcome to think of North Korea as a non-threat, and just not worry about it.

Canuckistan, what do you have to say to the thousands of slaves in the North Korean labor camps? Do you feel South Korea should become a "future partner" with a country that indulges this behavior?

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Speaking of banning computer games:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/23/MNG6DGCJ9J1.DTL

The law violates minors' first amendment rights? Do you think the ruling could jeopordized the movie ratings system and laws against selling porn to minors?

canuckistan · Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject:

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:39 pm Post subject:

canuckistan · Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject:

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

Does anybody know of any good books/articles about the German reunification?

Actually I would also be interested in the unifications of Germany and Italy in the 19th century.

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

To my knowledge the German and Italian unifications were among the leftovers of medieval petty kingdoms, and were thus similar in governance and income levels. The east German unification in the nineties was and is much more problematic, with west Germans still complaining that easterners are shiftless leeches and many older easterners wishing for the good old days to come back when everyone had a job. I would expect the same to happen in Korea despite the official public line that everyone's happy and united; and that is long after the initial decade of trying to demob and employ huge armies and pacify angry north Koreans dealing with future shock.

Ken:>

canuckistan · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:06 am Post subject:

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

patchy · Joined: 26 Apr 2005

This is a good move. I am pretty much against government interference but if they're going to do it anyway and have been doing it for some time then at least they're doing it in what I think is a positive way this time. North Korea has been demonized by the west so much that it amounts to a form of racism and dehumanization. There is not a big step up from treating North Koreans in this way to thinking what a good thing it is to 'exterminate' them.