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Article: Getting South Korea straight. (column)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1985
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GETTING SOUTH KOREA STRAIGHT
WE SHOULD attempt to impose a little order on our thinking.
South Korea is to all intents and purposes a one-party state. Unlike the world's totalitarian regimes, however, South Korea is heart-and-soul anti-Communist, which one would think natural in a country the northern half of which was wrenched from it by Stalinists who then tried to invade the southern half, very nearly causing a world war, and also killing a million Koreans. Like certain other non-Communist countries in the world that are largely dominated by a single party, South Korea has managed to cultivate a work ethic that is responsible for a most extraordinary ...