What I told the South Korean journalists yesterday was that the country is acting like a child over the question of North Korea, closing its eyes to the horror and tragedy that is Kim's regime and pretending that if they do not look, then it is not really there.■"The Two Koreas Agree to Field a Unified Olympic Team in 2008," by Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 2 November 2005, p. A10.
Putting bandaids over this is not only sad, it's immoral.
South Korea whines about the potential cost, but what it forgets is all the lost opportunity it is foregoing by sticking its head in the sand on this issue. South Korea should be a major global leader on a host of issues right now, but it will never grow up so long as it remains infantile about reunification.