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  • Xi told Biden he plans to take Taiwan — by any means necessary

    12/20/2023 10:48:22 AM PST · by shadowlands1960 · 49 replies
    New York Post ^ | December 20th, 2023 | Steven Nelson
    Chinese President Xi Jinping warned President Biden last month that he intends to end Taiwan’s decades-long de facto independence — peacefully, if possible. Xi told the 81-year-old commander-in-chief that “Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided,” NBC News reported Wednesday, citing three current and former US officials briefed on the meeting. The White House didn’t deny the exchange, which occurred during a Nov. 15 summit outside San Francisco that was attended by a dozen US and Chinese officials. “I’m not gonna get into the specifics of the discussion between the two...
  • The last of the "King 2 Hearts" music video set - It's Not My Time - 3 Doors Down

    10/31/2022 11:01:54 AM PDT · by mairdie · 3 replies
    YouTube ^ | 31 October 2022 | Mary Van Deusen
    The goal of the assassinated king, and of his brother who inherits the throne, is the reunification of South and North Korea. The force against them is a weapons conglomerate, Club M, with people in power all over the world. While the new king's North Korean fiancee is a physical force to be reckoned with, the king uses moral coercion, trusting that he can appear again and again in North Korea and dare them to kill a king.
  • Why the East Germans Lost

    06/19/2022 7:42:04 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 25 replies
    Jacobin ^ | 3 Oct 2020 | Lauren Balhorn
    Thirty years since German reunification, the “new states” from the former East still suffer the effects of mass deindustrialization and emigration. But if reunification hasn't delivered the promises of 1990, socialists should recognize why most East Germans didn't defend the old system — and why welfare and public services aren’t enough to build a viable socialist society. Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of German reunification — a decisive event in the end of state socialism in Eastern Europe. On October 3, 1990, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), formerly one of the most enthusiastic members of the Warsaw Pact, was annexed...
  • South Korea looks to Germany for reunification pointers

    10/04/2021 12:54:13 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 14 replies
    Deutsche Welle ^ | 10.03.2021 | Julian Ryall
    With just seven months left before he steps down as president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in and his government remain committed to their long-held dream of reuniting the two halves of the Korean Peninsula into a single nation. And, with Germany as one of the very few countries with recent experience of a similar amalgamation of two states, Unification Minister Lee In-young is traveling to Europe to discuss what can be learned from the events leading up to German reunification in 1990 and subsequent developments. Analysts suggest Moon and Lee have been “frustrated” by the failure to advance their agenda...
  • Jill Biden Bound for Active Role in Immigrant Family Reunification

    01/28/2021 7:20:46 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/28/2021 | Simon Kent
    Input from First Lady Jill Biden will form part of the Biden administration’s long-proposed task force aimed at reuniting parents and children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, it was claimed Thursday by various reports. Biden is tasking her East Wing with taking an active role in the reunification project, according to CNN, drawing on her legal background.
  • What if North Korea Collapsed?

    10/18/2018 9:24:36 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 14 replies
    The National Interest ^ | October 18, 2018 | Jamie Metzl
    "North Korea is a historical relic, destabilizing force, and human rights abomination. The Korean people and the world will be far better off without it." The good news is that this collapse has the potential to be a win-win for nearly everyone. The North Korean people will end their terrible suffering, North and South Korea will be reunified under South Korean law, potentially following a UN-administered transitional period and referendum, the specter of a rogue nuclear nation at the heart of Asia will be removed, and China will gain a valuable trading partner in a unified Korea and access to...
  • Moon reiterates commitment to peace, reunification with N. Korea

    10/05/2018 3:29:39 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 8 replies
    The Korea Herald ^ | October 5, 2018 | Yonhap
    President Moon Jae-in on Friday reiterated his commitment to peace and eventual reunification with North Korea, saying he dreams of a country that overseas Koreans can visit overland by car and train. Moon made the remark during a Korean Day ceremony before hundreds of representatives of overseas Koreans from around the world, stressing that the two Koreas are moving beyond national division and confrontation toward peace. "A dream of the South and the North becoming one in lasting peace. A dream of you and your children visiting your home country by car and train. A dream of (us) prospering throughout...
  • S Koreans Will Oppose Seoul Paying for Reunification With Pyongyang - Lawmaker

    10/02/2018 7:05:20 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 31 replies
    Sputnik ^ | October 3, 2018
    WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - South Korea will have to foot the bill for the reunification with North Korea and when citizens learn about the cost they will not support reunification, Korean Patriots Party leader Cho Won-jin told Sputnik. "US President [Donald] Trump is saying that he wants reunification without using America’s money whereas [South Korean President] Moon Jae-in wants to use Korea’s money for reunification, but the Korean public doesn’t really know this, and when they find out about it, there won’t be many Koreans who will agree to it," Cho said on Tuesday. Cho pointed out that "people are not...
  • Military vehicles, bunker supplies and propaganda have been facts of life for this DMZ village

    07/20/2018 10:08:58 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 4 replies
    The Ground Truth Project ^ | May 2, 2018 | Aziza Kasumov
    TONGIL CHON, South Korea — It’s Sunday, so Rev. Gang Suk Jin gets up at 4 a.m. to prepare for the morning service. Shortly before dawn, he steps outside, walks to a metal tower that resembles a radio tower, pulls on the white string dangling all the way to the bottom, and looks up. The bell rings. Its sound travels over the surrounding muddy land, across the bean fields and empty roads, through barbed wire fences and around military vehicles. This is Tongil Chon, a village a mile away from the most heavily guarded border in the world, the Korean...
  • Bring Koreas together first, says Zelikow

    07/03/2018 4:40:43 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 17 replies
    Korea JoongAng Daily ^ | July 4, 2018 | Esther Chung and Choi Ik-Jae
    Focusing on denuclearization won’t get us anywhere with North Korea, says Philip Zelikow, a former U.S. State Department official and professor of history at the University of Virginia. “I’ve been arguing for a long time that we need a different strategy,” he told the JoongAng Ilbo and Korea JoongAng Daily in an interview during the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity on June 27. “Instead of pushing for denuclearization first - a narrow technical agenda that doesn’t even engage the Korean people very much - we should have a broad discussion on many issues that Koreans understand and are important,...
  • Reuniting North Korea and South Korea could cost trillions of dollars

    06/12/2018 1:07:11 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 99 replies
    CBS News Money Watch ^ | June 12, 2018 | Jillian Harding
    President Donald Trump's historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday, following on the heels of the two Korean leaders meeting a little over two months ago, has raised the question of whether North Korea and South Korea would ever reunite. Analysts say unifying North and South Korea could cost a trillion dollars under the best of circumstances and take several decades. The final price tag would also depend largely on what the catalyst for reunification is. Some analyses put the cost of reunification at far more -- closer to $3 trillion. Experts argue that...
  • What to do in unified Korea?

    06/03/2018 11:15:25 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 4 replies
    The Korea Times ^ | June 3, 2018 | Kim Ji-myung
    The on-again off-again June 12 talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump are just nine days away. The venue is chosen and the main agenda is under discussion. However, we know that anything can happen before the meeting actually takes place in Singapore as planned. In my Feb. 10 column, "Post-crisis prophecy of unification," I introduced forecasts on national unification made by famed figures. A famous 1975 prophecy of a Buddhist master-monk was that Korea would have a lady president; and then near the end of her presidency, unification would come. Recently another renowned fortuneteller...
  • What you need to know about the Orthodox-Catholic split and hopes for reunification

    09/27/2017 11:19:05 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 40 replies
    Aleteia ^ | 09/27/2017 | Alicia Ambrosio
    When, why and how did it happen? And when will it come to an end? In 1054, Pope Leo IX of Rome and Patriarch Michael I Kiroularious of Constantinople excommunicated each other. This mutual act crowned a number of East-West disputes, resulting in an East-West schism in the Church. Western dioceses remaining in union with Rome came to be known as Roman Catholic, while Eastern dioceses remaining loyal to Constantinople claimed the banner of Orthodoxy. Nearly 1,000 years went by before a joint Catholic-Orthodox commission was created to study the causes of the division and work toward possible reunification.While...
  • Obama Admin. Expands Illegal Alien Child Program to Adults

    08/30/2016 9:03:06 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 20 replies
    MRC TV ^ | August 29, 2016 | Brittany M. Hughes
    The Obama administration has expanded its already-questionable program to bring in more illegal alien children to the United States, announcing in a recent press release it will now allow illegal alien adults to be fast-tracked to the United States via its Central American Minors (CAM) program. First launched under President Obama’s executive actions on immigration in 2014, the CAM program was originally touted as a safe alternative for Central American children trying to get to the United States via human smugglers. Under the program, Central American parents living in the United States, including those who are here illegally but are...
  • Steinem, other prominent women announce plan to walk Korean demilitarized zone

    03/13/2015 9:08:57 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 75 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 11, 2015 | AP, via Fox News
    Making the ultimate statement in Korean relations, Gloria Steinem and other prominent women on Wednesday announced their plans for a rare and risky walk across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea to call for reunification. The DMZ is the world's most fortified border, with the two countries still technically at war. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers face off across the heavily mined zone. Organizers of the effort called WomenCrossDMZ.org on Wednesday said they hope for 30 women, including two Nobel Peace laureates, to cross from North Korea to South Korea on May 24, which is International Women's Day...
  • Russia may declare 1990 reunification illegal (i.e. West/East Germany)

    01/28/2015 3:10:43 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 35 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 28 Jan 2015 15:54 GMT+01:00
    More than 25 years after the Berlin Wall’s fall, Russian lawmakers are mulling a proposal to condemn West Germany’s 1990 “annexation” of East Germany as Moscow’s answer to Western denunciation of its seizure of Crimea. Sergei Naryshkin, speaker of Russian parliament’s lower house, on Wednesday ordered legislators to consider an appeal from a Communist Party deputy to denounce the reunification of Germany as an illegal land grab of East Germany by its western neighbor. The collapse of Socialist rule in East Germany—officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR)—heralded the end of the Cold War, and was met with jubilation...
  • German reunification bill hits €2,000,000,000,000

    05/05/2014 5:49:19 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 11 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 05 May 2014 12:46 GMT+02:00 | J. Arthur White
    Researchers estimate that 25 years of financial support flowing from the former West into East Germany has cost just under €2 trillion ($2.8 trillion). In a study commissioned by the Welt am Sonntag, economists at the Berlin-based research association SED-Staat added up all transfers to East German states and individuals since reunification to come up with the astronomical figure. The difference between the social benefits collected by East Germans and their tax contributions made up the bulk of the price tag at about 60-65 percent of the total, the study showed. …
  • ‘An Historic Opportunity’: Turkish Cypriot Minister Says Reunification Deal Pending (Germany helps)

    04/02/2014 10:13:14 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 7 replies
    Der Spiegel ^ | April 01, 2014 – 11:17 AM | Suzanne Koelbl
    Negotiations to end the division of Cyprus have been ongoing for years. Now, Northern Cyprus Foreign Minister Özdil Nami tells Spiegel that a deal is close. And he wants Germany to help with reunification. […] “We have asked Germany for support for the process of reunification. Finally, the two parts of Cyprus—the Greek south and the Turkish north—are prepared for this step, after 40 years. It cannot be allowed to fail. It is an historic opportunity.” […] “With the large untapped natural gas reserves off the coast, we could help Europe reduce its dependency on Russia.” …
  • Forget About Family Reunification: Skilled immigrants should have priority over siblings and parents

    04/25/2013 6:44:01 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    National Review ^ | 04/25/2013 | Charles C.W. Cooke
    In Emma Lazarus’s 1883 poem The New Colossus, the United States offers a “world-wide welcome” to the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” One suspects that, were the poem written today, it would be rather more prosaic. “The golden door,” Lazarus might surmise, is open principally to those who happen to have a family member in the country or are fortunate at lotteries. When discussing any aspect of immigration policy, politicians shrewdly chatter on about “skills.” An immigrant “inventor” — of which there is an apparently unlimited supply — will create manufacturing jobs for the natives; a STEM graduate...
  • Kim Jong-Un Just Issued His First Threat Of War Against South Korea

    12/30/2011 11:50:47 AM PST · by Nachum · 27 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 12/30/11 | Gus Lubin
    Kim Jong-un, who was declared Supreme Leader of North Korea yesterday, issued his first terrifying threat of war today. North Korea may "smash the stronghold of the puppet forces" in the South in retaliation for "hideous crimes" committed during the mourning period for Kim Jong-il. Threats of war from Kim Jong-un's father, though terrifying, were routine. His father threatened and attacked the South multiple times, but he never started a war or launched a nuclear offensive or used his artillery force to devastate Seoul. (Snip) "When the whole nation is overcome with grief over the great loss, only the South