(Click on Image to Enlarge)Sixty Years After War Broke Out, Korean Peninsula Still In Limbo -- McClatchy News
NEAR THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE, South Korea — The tourists were bunched together on an observation deck, their faces pressed against binoculars to get a glimpse of North Korea.
A few days earlier, the regime of Kim Jong-il had said it would unleash "a merciless strike" that could turn Seoul into a "sea of flames" if South Korea turned on propaganda speakers not far from where the sightseers were pointing and giggling.
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My Comment: The McClatchy reporter notices the same thing that I have always noticed when visiting Korea. The young are in denial with the security threat that comes from the North .... preferring to focus instead on their own lives and how they can benefit from the opportunities that they have unlike their cousins in the north.
I can only hope that such a mindset will not be tested in the future, because if it is it will be a huge shock for many of these youngsters.
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was in that lovely country (?)in 1950, shortly after the Chinese crossed the border and pushed Americans into the Pusan perimeter..sad that so few people today even know there was a war in Korea and that officially it is still going on, though fighting has ceased.
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