difference in culture is only in the last 60yrs... they have much more history of similarities than differences... and let's look at the merger of East and West Germany: the West took advantage of cheaper labour of the East, they worked together with classic German work ethic, they have created a vibrant industrial base that can hold its own against all comers including China and SK, they are the only economy in Europe that is not tanking, and their current PM is actually from the east... sure, it took plenty of elbow grease to do it, but they proved wrong the naysayers who had thought the project of merging the very different states impossible...
nah, we are too important to NK...
we supply them with frozen prata, and
we operate their first (don't know if it's still their only) fast food restaurant... ;p:bsmilie::bsmilie: