North and South

Just this week:

• Belgian Frontrunner Wants to Break up Nation: “Carving up Belgium has been a cherished dream for the far-right in Flanders, Belgium’s economically dominant north, and a nightmare scenario for poorer French-speaking [south.]”
  
  
• Sudan Must Prepare for Oil-Rich South’s Secession, Hassan Says
  
  
• South Korea Asks U.N. Council to Act Against North Korea
  
  

Also:

• Italy’s Northern League, currently in coalition with Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right party, has also advocated a split between the rich north and the impoverished south.
  
  
• North-South Divide Persists Decades After Vietnam War
  
  
• Kyrgyzstan: North-South Divide Is A Factor In Politics