Whats it all ab out, Alfie.

[<RonaldS842@aol.com>]

   The United States kept all of its promises to South Korea with the 
exception of one, the original goal, a free, unified , and democratic Korea. 
We didn't do so well by some 40,000 North Korea partisans who wanted 
democracy. In a way we shamelessly abondoned them. And that's another story.
   The growing economic desparity between the two halfs has created an 
increasingly insurmontable obstacle. North Korea's per capita income is only 
about $900 per year. On the other hand with the help of substantial U.S. 
economic assistance southerners have raised their average annual income from 
practically nothing to $7200. Just to bring the economic level of the North 
to 60 percent that of the South would cost southerners $40 billion per year 
for ten years, about 1/8 of the South Korea's entire annual economic output. 
Cost estimates for the reunification of the two Koreas are from the director 
of policy studies at the Research Institute for National Unification in 
Seoul, Kil Jeong Woo.

Ronald Schultz
Moraga, CA