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[Summer Wine]

We always assume that NK is independent and that China is simply the neighbor who doesn't want to see them fail.

Though is this really the case, or has Kim Jong Il become simply the figure head of a new vassal State?

One that will be financially supported by China and controlled.

[VanIslander]

that's what the whole Northeast Project was about by Chinese academia working in conjunction with the government to re-write history in a multi-ethnic, regional way that puts all of north korea and parts of south korea shy of the Shilla southeast into the past nation of China

i've been telling koreans for years that china sure seems like the biggest threat to korean reunification, that japan and the u.s. have less at stake in preventing it than do the chinese, who never give up wishing to re-claim land once they've had it, and whom now are telling themselves that nortrh korea was part of china anyways

han chinese meet han korean, master and slave of the 22nd or 23rd century, just you wait

uigyurs and tibetians will be joined by koreans and laotians (i doubt vietnamese, but china's always wanted it) - oh sure, they won't loose their language like the Manchurians did, all peaceful and willing to assimmilate like, but speaking Mandarin and writing Chinese will be mandatory to an extent not matched by the Joseon Dynasty (the era of half-assimmilation efforts).

korea has through historical events both japan and america to thank for the strength of korean nationalism today

all this very non-PC with koreans

[Captain Corea]

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[Kuros]

Yes.

[VanIslander]

[On the other hand]

[young_clinton]

[Captain Corea]