Ian C. Kuzushi wrote:I have zero clue how anyone could claim that North Korea's poverty has not been brought up as sanctions are central to the negotiations.
North Korea was long in better shape than the South and made a far more rapid recovery after the Korean War.
Not mentioned they where bombed pretty badly during the war
""Every installation, facility, and village in North Korea now becomes a military and tactical target." Stratemeyer sent orders to the Fifth Air Force and Bomber Command to "destroy every means of communications and every installation, factory, city, and village."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_o ... _1950-1953
The collapse of trade after 1989 and sanctions were the main causes of the grinding poverty, despite what capitalist ideologues like to claim.
Honestly ask yourselves, why is North Korea so poor? It's not why some of you seem to assume.
The war was brutal for both sides, with the south being helped to recover from it. Something not allowed in the north.
There is a word they use to express some of feeling of this " han"
Han (한), a Korean Cultural Trait
Han–a Korean feeling of sorrow, oppression, unavenged injustice, and isolation–is hard to truly explain. There really isn’t an American equivalent; and given the difference in our countries histories that’s not really surprising. But han is something just about every Korean knows and understands."
My n-mantis teacher was from the north.
"During the Korean war he along with most other young men from his home town were recruited to fight for the south as guerilla fighters not actually associated with the formal army. After the war he was able to relocate to the south and has not seen his family since then.
Shifu Park Chil Sung worked for some time after the war for the South Korean equivalent of the American CIA, training in hand to hand combat."
http://www.oocities.org/mantiscave/parkchil.htmLots of families had very recent memories from the war....on both sides...
its time for them