The Nightmare Called Unification by J. Steinberg Sometime in June of this year, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Jong Il will meet for the first time. They are complete strangers to each other, although both consider themselves Korean. An unstable armistice holds millions of soldiers deployed througout the Korean peninsula in a permanent state of war, pitting three armies against each other across a no man's land of barbed wire, tunnels, and placards.
World history is littered with the dreams of aggrieved peoples.
Zionism is even a philosophy. Serbs, Albanians, and Croats all want to unify the same piece of land, only without any other group getting in the way. Kurds, Armenians, Tajiks, Basques, and Irish flout geography and borders with romantic disregard. And, the dream of Islamic solidarity still enthralls the young, whether they be Shiite or Sunnite, or just anti-Hindu. He contributes no labor, and has to be guarded by male field workers when the rest of the villagers are working in the fields.