United by a red, white, and blue. They are people divided by the forlorn powers of Europe in their perpetual quest of fortune, glory, and souls. The Malay people were divided into a North Malay and South Malay at the beginning of Imperial Conquest over East Asia. The British took on North Malay and Dutch took on South Malay. Since the circumcision of thier cultural connection was done during the Malay infancy of national identity, they are now accumostomed to separation of their people into the Indonesian and Malaysian. Neither longing to be United or reunite.
If you didn't know Malaysian and Indonesian are nearly the same, with many differences due to English and Dutch influence. Likewise Malaysian and Indonesians are dominantly of the same faith, Islam.
But as the age of colonial empires ended, and the peoples of East Asia rebelled against their indigenous leaders who sold them out to the West, Korean identity was kicking strong, agitated and strengthened by Japanese colonization.
Soon after the Empire of the Sun collapsed, Cold War Rivals sought to remake Korea in their own image. The Korean were fated to become the epicenter of divided world, divided by an axis of the faithful and faithless.
However, of matters of faith, the polarity is reversed. The Malay people were not receptive to Christian teachings sown by the British and Dutch, since the Islamic faith was able establish itself first, firmly, giving the Malay a certain kind of immunity to the biblicsl scholarship of Europe. The power of the Quran seated itself firmly in the firmament on both Malays, colonized by the Dutch and British.
But for the Korean people, their spiritual immunity was compromised, and they become deeply infatuated by their Cold War teachers, after the oppresive Japanese nightmare ended. South Korea took on a hard Protestant Polarity due American influence, while North Korea became smitten by her soviet comrades.
Consequently, the Korean people became permanently divided, under a bitter black cold war bite.
Since then, so much time has passed that it seems properly balanced that we have two Koreas balanced with two Malay Tribes. It is a balanced harmony along the eastern edges of Asia, from the northern tip to the southern tip of the Pacific coast.
United by their common mistrust of Western powers, North Korea opened the front door to Malylaysia. In 1973, a cultural bridge was opened between North Korea and Malaysia. For a time Malaysia became the only nation granted access to North Korea.
But this friendly union would not last, due to high minded politics and group think. They had a bitter falling out over the fate of a half-brother's assassination by VX nerve gas. Consequently, the collective powers punished the common folk and they demolished their bridge of friendship.
North Korea and Malaysia provide a mirror for the human heart and its fragile ego. They are fundamentally good people, like most nations, trapped and overrulled by thier own leaders, and the sinful trappings of the ego, as it is, was, and always shall be for all nations.
