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Originally Posted by Muta
I can't wait until that country is eventually exposed to the realities of the rest of the world one day. It's amazing how much they've been lied to for half a century.
It's almost tragic the way these people are so brainwashed.
It's too bad the people don't truly know the real success of their neighbours to the south.
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The night the Berlin Wall fell, stunned, rag-tag, East Germans staggered unbelieving through the glittering, neon-strewn and flush retail districts of West Berlin, past endless stores aglitter and stuffed with jewellry, clothing and technology . . . . . .
. . . . . and then they got angry as it started to occur to them how much they had been led down the proverbial garden path . . . .
A decade later, the Germans were still paying the bill of trying to normalize the East into a modern economy and Germany was called "the sick man of Europe." More than 20 years later, that's obviously started to change and Germany is the strong man of Europe again . . . .
The economic burden on South Korea should the North actually die a natural death would be something staggering as well.
The night the Berlin Wall was breached:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...660190,00.html
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