The difference between East Germans and North Koreans is day and night. - Brian Reynolds Myers

[I]f indigenousness were the key to state longevity on the peninsula, the Japanese would not have taken Korea so easily in 1910. Take it they did, of course, and their propaganda soon reached far more Koreans than had ever heard of the ancient sages.

LKP carries on the tradition of President Kim Young Sam (1993-98). Like him it has no firm political principles.

South Koreans do not identify enough with their "unloved republic" to feel anger when the North humiliates it, and they are reassured enough by the military alliance with the United States not to worry about where all this appeasement will lead.