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quiet about the Cheonan incideFriday, 4 June 2010 by Bluenesslan  Bluenesslan Cool heads needed on heated Korean Peninsula A s a TV host, I always try to meet with my audience, young or old, Chinese or not. Meeting with a group of young students from Peking University over the weekend, I was surprised that they were eager to discuss the Cheonan, the sunken South Korean warship. Among them was the 20-something Lee, a South Korean student at wow power leveling, Peking University. Looking like a South Korean version of Harry Potter, he was described by his Chinese friends as an extremely quiet guy. But he was wow power leveling anything but quiet about the Cheonan incident. He offered up all the news he\'d heard, and also volunteered to offer detailed analy-sis as to whether North Korea was really responsible, as the South Korea-led investigation claimed, and, with a solemn face, gave his prediction of the possibility of a war on the Korean Peninsula. It was only later that I found out from his aion kinah, Chinese friends that in a few weeks, he would have to go back home to join the military, a duty for any South Korean man his age. It\'s easy for us to take peace for aion kinah granted until a challenge emerges. I still remember today the stories told by my Big Uncle Huang, a distant relative of my family from Northeast China. He served as a member of the People\'s Volunteer Army from China during the Korean War (1950-53), responsible for logistics and transportation. With bombs dropping everywhere near him and his comrades-in-arms, he risked his life to do his duty. But he also confessed decades later to me, then a very small girl who was fascinated by his wartime stories, that he wanted to survive for one simple reason, to go back home to see his mother. Big Uncle Huang passed away a few years ago, but a photo of him as a handsome young soldier in the People\'s Volunteer Army is wedding dresses, still in my family album today. I remember a young man\'s constant fear, and an old man\'s unforgettable nightmare. Everyone hopes for peace, but it\'s wedding dresses only possible when day to day work is being handled properly. While we are cheap aion kinah, obsessed with the Cheonan incident, we should remember how things have reached where they are today. Tensions hav News category : Blogs 0 comments.
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