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[ulsanchris]

I think there will be a lot of shock when reunification happens. Imagine how messed up N. Koreans will feel when they see what they have been missing out on all these years. And how will they react one they find out the truth about all the lies they have been told? Things are so different between the north and south that they will have a hard time trying to deal with eachother. I don't think the honeymoon over reunification will last too long.

[On the other hand]

[Derrek]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[matko]

Nuke Pyeongyang and get it over with.




I have never been more serious in my entire life.



The Japanese have gotten over it (to a certain extent) so will the Koreans.

[Dan]

If there is a reunification, and I have my doubts, north koreans will have an overload of the "entertainment" industry and probably go nuts.

There was a very long article in the NYT magazine about kids that ran away from NK and made it to SK successfully. But they could never fully adjust to south korean culture. Thus most lived as outcasts, quite a few fell into alcoholism and one died in a motorcycle accident.

Though they could not afford them, each got a "handphone" and rang up extremely high bills, and the boys especially were so wrapped up in violence as a part of them NK past that they could not function as normal members of society.

This is the bleak future that awaits both north and south korea.

[On the other hand]

[indiercj]

[matko]

[Alias]

North Korea = Theocracy

[jajdude]

I wish Kim Jong Il would die... soon!

[Walter Mitty]

[indiercj]

Matko, i was just hoping you were actually joking, which would have made me sick nonetheless. Killing millions of innocent people in the name of democracy and world peace is something too cruel for me to agree with. Those sacrificed may well be my distant relatives living in PyungYang and ChungJin.

Yeah they have been threatening the US since the end of the War and now they are suspected to have a nuclear weapon program. But IMO while the US's threat is real; we've seen more than enough of what they are capable of, so far i've not been addressed with sufficient evidence that the North's nuclear threat is real. I think if they are actually capable of having nukes and "blowing the west" the US army must be looking for Kim Jung Il's body by now: just like what they are doing in Iraq. The fact that unlike Iraq the US government was a few steps away of normalizing the relations with the North at 99 and that even Bush seems to be willing to push forward diplomatic solution make me wonder what the North Korean capability of "blowing the west" might be. To me, the only thing sure right now is the fact that North Korea wants the US and the rest of the world to believe they have the bomb or at least capable of having it.

[Trinny]

Indiercj,

You are firing up the thread, aren't you?

Rest assured. The US won't start any military aggression on the Dear Leader. They cannot afford to have muliple fronts at the same time. And what is more important is the Dear Leader is not Sadam Hussein.

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