Every couple of years I reread a few classic books that tell fundamental truths that you can forget if you don't keep reminding yourself.
For the work of the Pacific Century Institute, I read former U.S. Senator William Fulbright's "The Arrogance of Power."
The lesson it clearly tells me now is that without a bipartisan South Korean policy toward the North based on magnanimity there is no hope for Korean unification any time in the imaginable future. This realization struck me hard as Koreans just marked their 70th year of liberation from the Japanese colonial rule.
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