Word: coldness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...impact of outside contact on its closed ideological system, while South Korea is getting over an economic slump and would fear being overburdened by any sudden move to reunification. They're more likely to take incremental steps, over many years, rather than rush into a Germany-type scenario." Post-Cold War realignments that have seen both Russia and China abandoning their traditional hostility to Seoul and building ever-closer relations with South Korea have left the Dear Leader little choice but to make nice with the South. And, of course, it helps that Seoul's leader, President Kim Dae Jung...
...leader of one Korea to the other with that telegenic gesture, the Dear Leader has given Koreans on both sides of the 1953 cease-fire line an enduring image of reconciliation that will kindle hopes for the reunification of families divided by the world's most dangerous Cold War boundary - and even for the reunification of the broader Korean family...
When you've been walking on water most of your life--when, since you reached adulthood, America has mostly been at peace, the economy has mostly been strong, and you've been part of a group large enough to call the cultural shots--harsh reality makes for a cold shower...
...based and space-based weapons. Even today, we cannot test a high-speed interceptor against any incoming missile traveling faster than 5 km per SEC. because the Russians are afraid it might be effective against their ICBMs. This is quite crazy. It means that because of a cold war relic, the U.S. has to forgo building the most effective defense it can against nuclear attack by a rogue state such as North Korea...
...Soviets keep, indeed build what they want. If they want to bankrupt themselves building an arsenal they will never use--and that lacks even the psychologically intimidating effects it had during the cold war--let them...