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DeLone may have skipped town to compete in the professional ranks, but the core of the team is back. In addition to deLone, the Crimson only lost one varsity singles player, to graduation (Kim Cooper...
DeLone may have skipped town to compete in the professional ranks, but the core of the team is back. In addition to deLone, the Crimson only lost one varsity singles player, to graduation (Kim Cooper...
...answered prayer. They have calculated that relative to the size of their economy, it will be 10 times as expensive for them to unite with North Korea as for the Bonn government to absorb the former East Germany. The outbreak of political turmoil in the wake of Kim's death could send hundreds of thousands of Northerners pouring across the Demilitarized Zone. Or would-be refugees might be slaughtered by North Korean troops, a horror that would tempt if not oblige the South to intervene...
What makes such scenarios especially disturbing is the uncertainty over the status of North Korea's clandestine program to develop an atom bomb. Kim is probably playing cat and mouse, like Saddam, with the international community's nuclear inspectors. But Kim did not lose a war last year, so he has much more control over foreign access to his facilities and air space...
...these reasons, the South Koreans with whom I talked are crossing their fingers that the death of communism in the North and unification with the South will be spread out over 10 or even 20 years. They are counting on their new partners in Beijing to wean Kim's successors away from Stalinism. As Professor Ahn Byung Joon of Yonsei University in Seoul put it, "The only course is to persuade North Korea to adopt the Chinese model of economic reform and an open-door policy toward the rest of the world...