Olympic Dreams of a United Korea? Many in South Say, ‘No, Thanks’<br />"But the Pyeongchang Olympics can go beyond South-North reconciliation<br />and provide clues to easing tensions and building peace on the Korean Peninsula." Analysts say a key turning point in attitudes toward the North came in 2010, when a South Korean naval ship was sunk by an apparent North Korean torpedo attack, killing 46 sailors, and North Korea launched a rocket barrage on a South Korean island that killed four people, including two civilians.<br />Supported by By Choe Sang-Hun SEOUL, South Korea — The last time South Korea hosted an Olympics, in 1988,<br />the North not only refused to take part, it blew up a South Korean airliner 10 months before the Games.<br />Kim said that Especially men in their 20s, about half of them, consider North Korea an outright enemy,<br />On Thursday, North Korean state media called on "all Koreans at home<br />and abroad" to support moves toward reunification and eliminate obstacles created by "outside forces," a reference to the United States.<br />"To young South Koreans, North Korea is someone they don’t want anything to do with." Polling experts say<br />that South Korean men in their 20s often get more hawkish after they finish their mandatory military service.<br />Park said that I personally wouldn’t welcome reunification<br />because it would create a burden for us, as we would have to help rebuild the North Korean economy,
