South Korea is heading north

COLLINGS' CORNER

As the world is marking the 65th anniversary of the end of the WWII, South Koreans, unfortunately, have as much reason to be as cheerful as feel anguish.

While the Japanese invaders were being forced out of Korea in August 1945, the Korean communist leaders, supported by the Soviet Union, began to section the peninsula. The human tragedy of the divided nation is devastating. And the separation has also proved a ruthless social experiment that clearly illustrated the superiority of “nurture against nature”. The differences in development between the North and the South are so striking it is hard to believe less than a century ago they were one nation. North Korea remains more of a forced labour camp than anything that can be legitima...