North Korea 'executes 80 people for watching foreign films'

[geek tragedy]

98. No, I knew everything that has been discussed already.

I knew that partition happened because the Soviets and its then ally Kim Il Sung prevented the UN from establishing control above the 38th parallel.

I know that partition happened because the Soviets installed a Communist dictatorship rather than permitting free elections for the entire peninsula.

I know that the North Koreans invaded for purposes of conquest and uniting Korea under their dictatorial rule.

I also know that but for the United States, the people of South Korea would have been conquered by the north and would be eating grass like people in the North are.

And that South Korea's exports to the United States were crucial to its economic development.

And, yes, I know the South had a number of authoritarian thugs that ruled it up until the end of Reagan and that the US engaged in human rights abuses there.

But, I also recognize that this doesn't mean that the South would have been better off under the North's rule.