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“[N]o division of a nation in the present world is so astonishing in its origin as the division of Korea; none is so unrelated to conditions or sentiment within the nation itself at the time the division was effected; none is to this day so unexplained: in none does blunder and planning oversight appear to have played so large a role. ” -- Gregory Harrison, Divided Nations in a Divided World  (David McKay Co., Inc., 1974), Part I., Ch. 2, p. 43. chapter on Korea    

“We should never negotiate from fear, but we should never fear to negotiate.”  --- Former secretary of defense William Perry, who negotiated with North Korea during the last U.S. confrontation over DPRK’s weapons program, during the Clinton administration July 23, 2003.

“The DPRK is not a nice place, but it is an understandable place, an anticolonial and anti-imperial state growing out of a half-century of Japanese colonial rule and another half-century of continuous confrontation with a hegemonic United States and a more powerful South Korea, with all the predictable deformations (garrison state, total politics, utter recalcitrance to the outsider) and with extreme attention to infringements of its rights as a nation.”  Cumins, “North Korea: Another Country” (2004) p. 76.