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eter are largely forgot- ten. Generations of young Americans have scant knowledge of this major post-WWII conflict. The 38th parallel, the
arbitrary line dividing the peninsula on a North
THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, July 1, 2010
South line, has ripped the very heart and soul of the historic Korean nation. One people and one cul- ture have been separated by two political systems,. In the North, totalitar- ian rule in the quaintly titled Democratic People’s
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Republic of Korea is coun- terbalanced by and the socio/political democracy in the South. Now the good news.
Since the 1970’s South Ko- rea has been an amazing socio-economic saga. And following the successful hosting of the Seoul Sum- mer Olympics in 1988, South Korea emerged as a player on the global stage. South Korea is among the USA’s top ten trading partners. Political democratiza-
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tion, economic progress, and a growing global pres- ence puts South Korea on the short list of success- ful international players. I still recall when both South and North Korea were admitted into the UN back in 1991 after forty years of political frustration. Now a South Korean, Ban Ki-moon is the Secretary General of the 192 member organi- zation.
Seoul’s diplomats pre-
sented the case of the sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean naval vessel which mysteriously sank
in March. A Joint Civil- ian Military investigation group composed or Ko- rean and foreign experts asserted “The Cheonan was split apart and sunk owing to a shockwave and bubble effect pro- duced by an underwater explosion…the weapon system used is confirmed to be a high explosive tor- pedo with a net explosive weight of about 250kg manufactured by North Korea.” The report con- cludes that “the torpedo was fired by a North Ko- rean submarine.” While Seoul seeks a se-
rious political condemna- tion of the communist North, a rebuke is unlikely given that People’s Repub- lic of China will not allow such an action. While Bei- jing and Seoul have close commercial relations, one cannot overlook the still close “comradely political ties” between Beijing and Pyongyang. Thus any serious Security Council action beyond the study of documents and dos- siers relation to the issue is highly unlikely.
North Korea naturally
vehemently denies the charges and is spreading a harvest of disinforma- tion as to their validity. Yet the point remains
that North Korea’s bizarre Marxist Monarchy is in the midst of a delicate po- litical transition from the feeble “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il to one of his sons. Creating mischief in the atmosphere of the USA being tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan, may be part of Pyongyang’s calcu- lation. Given the stakes, nobody, least of all in mili- tarily vulnerable, Seoul South Korea, would wish to see these storm clouds linger any longer
John J. Metzler is a Unit-
ed Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dyna- mism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations; Ger- many, Korea, China (Uni- versity Press, 2001).
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