Here’s a question for far greater minds than mine to answer: Why hasn’t North Korea, which lays claim to all of South Korea, behaved like Pakistan, which lays claim to only a very tiny portion of India?
After all, in most other respects there is little to choose from between them. They are like two peas in a pod.
Thus, both got rid of their colonial masters around the same time: Korea in 1945 and in 1947 Pakistan got created. Both were the result of a partition.
One partition was caused by common but reluctant consent. The other was caused by Russia and
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