SEOUL, South Korea - It was New Year's Eve in 1950. Koreans were fleeing the Chinese advance in the North when American soldiers halted their train at the South Korean border — shooting bullets into its steam tank to prevent it from ever running again.
That ill-fated train was the last to try to cross the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula, which has remained in a state of conflict since the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War. On Thursday, two trains are expected to cross the border again in a highly symbolic test-run seen as another step toward healing the wounds between the North and South.
For South Korea, restoration of rail travel would help end its virtual island status, given that the only land route out is through North Korea. A rail link could reduce delivery costs for its export-driven economy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070516/ap_on_...restoring_rails
The South needs the North and the North needs the South, for S.Koreans who dissapprove this kind of status, that is the obvious, it's only a matter of time. I urge many S.Koreans who will forever be puppets to the U.S.A and anti-N.Korea and anti-reunification to start applying for over sea immigrations.
The late, Kim Il-Sungs dream will come true in the future.
Full Version: North & South move closer to
QUOTE(Bulldogg @ May 16 2007, 03:31 PM) 
SEOUL, South Korea - It was New Year's Eve in 1950. Koreans were fleeing the Chinese advance in the North when American soldiers halted their train at the South Korean border — shooting bullets into its steam tank to prevent it from ever running again.
That ill-fated train was the last to try to cross the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula, which has remained in a state of conflict since the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War. On Thursday, two trains are expected to cross the border again in a highly symbolic test-run seen as another step toward healing the wounds between the North and South.
For South Korea, restoration of rail travel would help end its virtual island status, given that the only land route out is through North Korea. A rail link could reduce delivery costs for its export-driven economy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070516/ap_on_...restoring_rails
The South needs the North and the North needs the South, for S.Koreans who dissapprove this kind of status, that is the obvious, it's only a matter of time. I urge many S.Koreans who will forever be puppets to the U.S.A and anti-N.Korea and anti-reunification to start applying for over sea immigrations.
The late, Kim Il-Sungs dream will come true in the future.
That ill-fated train was the last to try to cross the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula, which has remained in a state of conflict since the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War. On Thursday, two trains are expected to cross the border again in a highly symbolic test-run seen as another step toward healing the wounds between the North and South.
For South Korea, restoration of rail travel would help end its virtual island status, given that the only land route out is through North Korea. A rail link could reduce delivery costs for its export-driven economy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070516/ap_on_...restoring_rails
The South needs the North and the North needs the South, for S.Koreans who dissapprove this kind of status, that is the obvious, it's only a matter of time. I urge many S.Koreans who will forever be puppets to the U.S.A and anti-N.Korea and anti-reunification to start applying for over sea immigrations.
The late, Kim Il-Sungs dream will come true in the future.
North and South reunification is the future, put it this way WE as Koreans should all hope for desperately for the reunification of Korea. If we were unified, our economic power would be on par to the Germans, for the most part bigger than most European countries barring Russia and Germany. Mr. Kim is holding us back, we should pray daily that his fat @$$ dies of a heart attack.
it's really sad to see what communism does to people, may marx roast in hell.
QUOTE(incognito6 @ May 16 2007, 07:45 PM)
North and South reunification is the future, put it this way WE as Koreans should all hope for desperately for the reunification of Korea. If we were unified, our economic power would be on par to the Germans, for the most part bigger than most European countries barring Russia and Germany. Mr. Kim is holding us back, we should pray daily that his fat @$$ dies of a heart attack.
Not for several decades. South Korean economy will plummet if the reunification process happens too suddenly, (It happened to Germany, and they are still trying to recover from the shock) and no South Korean politicians want that to happen. It will be a while before the two countries can truly reunite with one another.
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