Some good news for once
It seems there's cause for a bit more hope this afternoon, regarding the situation on the Korean peninsula. According to the New York Times, the two Koreas will be competing together as one nation at the 2006 Asian Games and at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Apparently they've been trying to do this for many years, but things have never really gotten off the ground. Personally, I think this is great news for the region. This kind of co-operation can only be good news, really. Add this to recent successes in the multilateral nuclear proliferation talks, and a pretty positive scenario is painted. Granted, there's still a long way to go, but these good developments generally tend to go unreported in favour of the more negative ones - see recent coverage of Syria. Perhaps one day in the near future, we'll see a unified Korea - it may seem like an unrealistic pipe dream to some, but we need some hope in this world, don't we?
