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I now have a new location for The Asianist:
For those of you who already blogrolled me, please kindly change the URL to the new one.
Thank you!
The Asianist will be undergoing some major changes in the near future. Until that time, there will not be any new entries.
In the mean time, please visit Guns and Butter Blog for continuing coverage.
Now they can all hold hands and sing Kumbaya while tens of thousands die in North Korea's gulags.
North Korea and South Korea are two different countries with separate sovereignty. They should not be allowed to field a joint team. Remember, unification fist, then joint-anything else second.
I second Kushibo's prediction:
At any rate, I don't think this is a done deal. An awful lot can happen between now and 2008 (or even 2006). I think that ultimately there won't be anything more than walking into the stadium together.In fact, I think that, in the long run, this is going to be bad for mindless supporters of North-South relations. The North will probably back out, leaving someone in Seoul with egg on their face.
Earlier I wrote about the problems associated with Yasukuni.
Now, it seems they finally listened. Angry Chinese Blogger reports:
After many years of public and private debate, and nearly 25 years of protests by neighboring China, it has been announced that Tokyo is to form a cross party committee of 100+ lawmakers, drawn from all sides of Japan's political system, to once and for all deal with the thorny issue of providing Japan with an internationally acceptable national war memorial that is free of the controversies that have wracked Yasukuni.This being Japan, reform of any kind will take place at a glacial speed, but it is a welcome step nonetheless. Once the Yasukuni issue is settled "more or less," China would have less excuse for its state-sponsored crude nationalism and xenophobia.