Asian Apologies

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Originally posted by DanS
Interesting. Apparently, refusing to apologize is sometimes OK too.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,160192,00.html

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/05/1038950137444.html

What kind of currency does an apology have, anyway?

it doesnt seem like it was ok at all actually... read the second one. they had to call up all the SE asian countries and have a meeting explaining them...

first one turned out shes was malaysian

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Originally posted by DanS
Seeker: Don't they know that the North is one serious fvcked up place? This won't be Germany reuniting. It will be a barely third world country reuniting with a first world country. It's going to break the bank for 20 or 30 years, and will be a substantial problem for a significant period of time afterward.

To paraphrase Mohandas Gandhi, yes - it will be a great problem for the country to deal with. It won't be an easy answer fix.

But it's Korea's problem, not America's. And if they want to tackle it themselves as a modernized, wealthy, fully democratic state, then I don't see the need, right, or justification to prevent them.

South Korea now has enough military superiority to nullify any strategic threat the North has, barring nuclear weapons. And the North can no longer count on China to come to its military aid, not when China does more trade with the South and America than North Korea has ever seen in its history.

Nothing is going to be solved if the popular sentiment turns so far away from America that Bush is viewed even worse than Kim Jong Il.

On an unrelated note, my housemate looks just like Kim Jong Il when he gets up in the morning and hasn't had time to brush his hair.