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    Lilly (Hungry hungry hipster!)Collier Meyerson
    4/04/15 6:17pm

    I admittedly know very little about the politics of this, the split happened before my time. I only know the countries as they are now. That being said, why on earth would she want them reunified? Their cultures are completely different now.

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      Queen of BithyniaLilly (Hungry hungry hipster!)
      4/04/15 6:21pm

      Yeah. We’re decades past the point where reunification was plausible. Even if the entire North Korean leadership was abducted by aliens one night, what would remain is a totally unindustrialized place populated by malnourished, uneducated, and desperately impoverished people. South Korea probably couldn’t fix things for them, even if they wanted to take on something insane like that.

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      MotherOfUnicorns will only call Trump Cheeto JesusLilly (Hungry hungry hipster!)
      4/04/15 6:23pm

      That’s where I am at a loss as well. There is a lot of animosity on both sides and massive cultural differences. I could understand wanting both sides to have better relations and an open border but I can’t see the later happening anytime soon.

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    Kenny and the LlamasCollier Meyerson
    4/04/15 6:40pm

    For the commenters who don’t think reunification is possible: Of course it is. What’s the Korean for “Wir sind das volk”?

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      fuckthisshitimoutKenny and the Llamas
      4/04/15 6:43pm

      There are a lot of differences between this situation and that situation- starting with the fact that a lot of young S. Koreans don’t want reunification. also the sheer impoverishment and brainwashing of the N. Koreans means that while reunification might be possible- It would be a long arduous process that the S. Koreans may not want to undertake.

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      kitteneyeKenny and the Llamas
      4/04/15 7:05pm

      While East and West Germany certainly had radically different governments, I don’t think that the reunification of Germany is necessarily comparable. For one, it’s tied up with a lot of other world events, such as the fall of the Soviet Union. East Germany would not have survived economically on its own. Second, West Germany still acknowledged East Germany as being Germany - they considered themselves one country with two halves. To my knowledge, a lot of South Koreans don’t feel that way at this point. There is a major cultural difference there. And third, Germany was separated for ~40+ years (late 1940s to late 1980s), with 30 of those being the crazy-divided Berlin Wall period. That’s a generation or two less than the N/S Korea divide, and a generation can mean a whole lot. There were still a lot of people alive in East and West Germany in 1990 who remembered unified Germany and knew people on both sides.

      Not saying it can’t happen, but I think that if it does, it will be a very different story from what happened with Germany.

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    ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDCollier Meyerson
    4/04/15 8:06pm

    Basically North Korea is Romulus, South Korea is Vulcan, and she is trying to be Ambassador Spock to Kim Jong Un’s Commander Sela.

    I don’t think she has what it takes to be Spock, though.

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      Chummy the Gopherʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      4/04/15 9:32pm

      a) You are a genius

      b) Maybe Christine Ahn has what it takes?

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      000ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      4/04/15 10:52pm
      GIF
      GIF
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    JustSome1Collier Meyerson
    4/04/15 6:26pm

    This sounds really, really dangerous. Even in Panmunjom, I’m sure there are TONS of land mines, razor wire and nervous of anything happening armed guards on both sides.

    Plus, at this point, could the cultures even be able to merge and become a united Korea?

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      GemmabetaJustSome1
      4/04/15 6:39pm

      If Steinem is crossing at the Panmunjom and with the blessings of both Koreas, she will literally just be marching down a gravel path in the middle of a joint military base. It will be perfectly safe.

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    EldritchCollier Meyerson
    4/04/15 6:35pm

    Yeeeeah, uh, good luck with that one.

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      IFindYourLackOfPantsDisturbingCollier Meyerson
      4/04/15 11:49pm

      At this point that would be like trying to reunite the Morlocks and the Eloi.

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        ConanCollier Meyerson
        4/04/15 7:58pm

        I never thought Gloria Steinem would try to play James Franco in a remake of The Interview.

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          ILikeThunderstormsConan
          4/05/15 6:00pm

          I’d watch that movie tho

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