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November 02, 2024
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Decades later, a once-divided Germany still holds lessons for Korean peace

Bernhard Seliger of the Hanns Seidel Foundation weighs in on how North and South Korea can reconcile

For years, scholars in South Korea and abroad have looked to East Germany and West Germany for any takeaway that could help inter-Korean peace. 

The Korean Peninsula, which has been divided for some 75 years, can look to its European neighbor for lessons but cannot clone that stretch of history, according to Bernhard Seliger of the Hanns Seidel Foundation.

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