@slowwalker, your post deeply affected me. Your last sentence says it all. The ultimate solution is that the older and younger brother nations, North and South Korea, need to settle their family differences between themselves, together, with mutual respect for each other. I grieve for all those broken families that have been denied the basic human right of living together as a family, for all l those years.

The rest of the world should welcome the recent moves, such as at the Olympics and the talks between the Presidents of North and South Korea to start on the road, no matter how tentatively, of brotherly reconciliation.

As a United States citizen for my entire life, I am ashamed that my President, even as a sad joke, is thinking about a Nobel Peace Prize. He should do everything in his power to let the brothers make peace and stop this unnecessary and wasteful family feud.

Ira - upvoted and resteemed.