I was very pleased to see the two Korean leaders at their meeting at the border of North and South, and to watch the warmth and simplicity that characterised their mutual greetings: their body language was impressively innocent of all artifice, pomposity, or power-display, and they greeted each other like brothers, with genuine affection and no jostling for dominance over the other.
Surely something worthwhile will emerge if these two are not ‘got at’ by the so-called global superpowers whose murky machinations set the people of North and South against each other in the 1950s (I narrowly escaped conscription as a National Serviceman in the Korean conflict at that time). Yes, another poisonous dose of Yankee imperialism against the Yellow Peril…