Will Korea ever be reunited again?
349274
Anytime soon? No. There are stirrings of revolt in North Korea, but not enough to effectively take over the country.\n\nWith Kim Jong-il's grip on the country, I would guess it would take his death for any kind of realistic revolution to occur and the two Korea's to be reunited.
610197
Maybe because S.Korea wear red
1161936
no, because they can't even get along inside the smallest of countries there's no way the whole continent would get along unless they were dominated by a single power and then that power receded they might for a little while but the old issues would resurface
582299
it really hasnt been since 1958\n\nin the 50s it was thought that the communist threat was spreading to all of asia, the so-called domino affect\n\nkorea is only important NOW, because it has a nuclear weapon and an erratic leader
642351
Hey things are changing\n2002 was in S. Korea
1045129
I have, it was in 1985.  My last time there was in 2001 though.  It is a small military post on the top of a hill outside of Oijongbu.  Yes, that's right, Oijongbu, you know, the village they talk about on MASH.  By the way, a little bit of trivia for you, there actually was a MASH unit stationed outside of Oujongbu, it just wasn't the 4033 MASH.  When I was there it was the base camp for the 2nd Infantry Division Field Artillery Battalion.  Go out one gate and you had a Korean prison and the road to Oijongbu, go out the other and you had the bars and stores and restaurants, along with a little village.  Since it was downhill going out either gate, after a night of drinking in the village, it was rough going back up the hill towards base.  Anything esle you want to know, just ask.
879401
In the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Korea which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, Korea was divided in two, with the Soviet Union controlling the area north of the 38th parallel and the United States in control south of the 38th parallel. The Korean people were not consulted by either power prior to this division. While virtually all Koreans welcomed liberation from Japanese imperial rule, they objected to the reimposition of foreign rule over the peninsula. The Soviets and Americans were unable to agree on the implementation of Joint Trusteeship over Korea. This led in 1948 to the establishment of separate governments in the north and south, each claiming to be the legitimate government of all of Korea.[citation needed]\n\nGrowing tensions between the governments in the north and south and border skirmishes eventually led to a civil war called the Korean War. On June 25, 1950 the (North) Korean People's Army attacked across the 38th Parallel in a move to reunify the peninsula under their political system. The war continued until July 27, 1953, when the United Nations Command, the Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People's Volunteers signed the Korean War Armistice Agreement. The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has separated the North and South ever since\n\nSince its birth in the 1950's. Soviets, Kim Il Song, China major palyers.
661290
Immediately before the Korean War, there was only one country on the Korean Peninsula, yes.  At other times it was divided into three native kingdoms, and it's been invaded and colonized by Japan, China, and Mongolia at various periods.
722730
Yes.  I am reunited with my lover from 23 years ago.  We met in Korea in 1983, while waiting in the rain for a bus.  He was an Army medic and I was a civilian employee for the US government.  We got engaged in Korea, but then a lot of life happened and I ended up going back to a former boyfriend.  I had known former bf for five years at the time, and new lover only five months.\n\nWe both married and divorced and married other people and never contacted each other for years.  In Feb. 2005 he searched me on the internet and contacted me.  He was unhappily married and I was unhappily alone.  ;~)  One thing and another, and he ended up leaving a horrible marriage of 18 years and coming to live with me in April 2005.  We have been together ever since and now know that we were meant to be together.  Happy ending!!\n\nI forgot to say that I kind of made the first move, but there is a story there, too.  I was used to being hit on regularly--blonde, blue-eyed American girl in Korea, where male GIs outnumber females by thousands.  He asked me to go on a tour in Seoul with him, it was an all-day date, but he was a perfect gentleman.  At the end of the date, I asked him if he was gay.  And he busted up laughing and said why?  And I said because every other guy in country has hit on me in the first five minutes.  He said that he resisted doing that because he knew I would be intrigued (he is a psych major).  And he was right!
799212
Sticking your head in the sand an ignoring lessons from history about the threats our country can and have faced is the policy of an idiot. Even the USA could become the enemy of the UK in the future when natural resources become worth fighting for. The 21st century has along way to go and it is more than likely that a global war will occur again. No doubt caused by a lack of water and natural resources. I woulld much rather our country did not have to give in to the USA, China or Russia when the fighting does actually begin. And only an idiot would be happy to allow a country like North Korea to have access to Nuclear weapons. They have a stated policy of wanting to overthrow the South Korean regime using any means possible.
877021
North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung, was not merely a dreary Stalinist tyrant. As defectors from his country will tell you, he was also a popular anti-Japanese guerrilla leader in the mold of Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist tyrant of Albania who led his countrymen in a successful insurgency against the Nazis. Nor is his son Kim Jong Il anything like the childish psychopath parodied in the film Team America: World Police. It’s true that Kim Jong Il was once a playboy. But he has evolved into a canny operator.\n\nAnd Kim is hardly impulsive: he has the equivalent of think tanks studying how best to respond to potential attacks from the United States and South Korea—attacks that themselves would be reactions to crises cleverly instigated by the North Korean government in Pyongyang.\n\nIn other divided countries of the twentieth century—Vietnam, Germany, Yemen—the forces of unity ultimately triumphed. But history suggests that unification does not happen through a calibrated political process in which the interests of all sides are respected. Rather, it tends to happen through a cataclysm of events that, piles of white papers and war-gaming exercises notwithstanding, catches experts by surprise. \n\nIn fact, what terrifies South Koreans more than North Korean missiles is North Korean refugees pouring south. The Chinese, for their part, have nightmare visions of millions of North Korean refugees heading north over the Yalu River into Manchuria.\n\nKim Jong Il learned a powerful lesson by watching the fall of the Ceausescu Family Regime, in Romania: Take utter and complete control of the military.\n\nOf course, South Korea would bear the brunt of the economic and social disruption in returning the peninsula to normalcy. No official will say this out loud, but South Korea—along with every other country in the region—has little interest in reunification, unless it were to happen gradually over years or decades. The best outcome would be a South Korean protectorate in much of the North, officially under an international trusteeship, that would keep the two Koreas functionally separate for a significant period of time. This would allow each country time to prepare for a unified Korean state, without the attendant chaos.
100513
They are in a precarious situation. China and Korea, their neighbors, both have nuclear capabilities and are RIGHT NEXT DOOR. I would leave too.
434349
The example of the current dispute between South Korea and Japan over the island of Dokdo is instructive. \n\nIn brief, the Korean claim is much stronger. The islands were seized by Japan back in the bad old days, and taken back after WWII. Koreans HATE the Japanese, and for good reason. Lately the Japanese have been stirring up trouble (starting with a textbook, kooky, huh?) over these islands, with an eye towards grabbing some fish. \n\nPolitically, the funniest thing is the North Koreans are backing the South Koreans to the hilt in the dispute.
1134365
Well Japan in itself is done with war.  It is in their law of war now. They will never be the offensive in a war, only support and defend.  As far as the WW3 thing, we are on the verge of it.  North Korea and China only leave Japan alone because we have bases there, if we left....  And as it is you know China, Russia, and N. Korea would join.  And then we would be back to the original Allies for us.  Except this time it would have Japan with us.  They can be ruthless, as we know.  And in the long run, the next WW, will be earthly disasterous!!  Nuculear weapons, and the number of ground troups required for that kind of war again would be insane!  The outcome would be the end of seperated countries, someone will battle for dominance. But end the world as we know it.
1184575
No, I'm not. And nobody in South Korea is, either. I was posted there in 2004. The people who live there are so accustomed to the North's saber-rattling, that they don't even listen to it anymore. The fact of the matter is, people need to realize just what a short leash China keeps North Korea on. Pyongyang doesn't do anything that Beijing doesn't back them on, and Beijing won't back them in any attempt to start some s**t with the US because they don't want to lose our business.
371230
"Although North and South Korea were once united, the attitudes and advances made by each nation have led each in different directions, and the reunification of these two seperate nations would only create perpetual internal strife."\n\n...just a suggestion. :)
1101583
For my roomie's sake - I will say Korea.