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Separation Pains

On the Korean Peninsula

 

PANMUNJOM, North Korea -- The North Korean colonel talking with American journalists during a recent government-sponsored tour grabbed one of the reporters by the waist and squeezed forcefully with both hands.

'It hurts, right?" Colonel Kang Ho Sop, 57, said with a grimace. ''That's how it feels to be cut in half."

More than half a century after the Korean peninsula was severed in two, the pain of being a divided nation gnaws at millions of people on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. ... Full article

 

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