The strained relationship between these two countries will hardly be mended by the World Cup.
-What kind of diplomatic relationship exists between these two countries today?
Research the relationship between these two countries over the last fifty years and create a timeline.
Even translating between these two countries takes a good deal of savvy.
None of those nice definitions improved mutual trust between these two countries.
Those feelings soldered something new and deep between these two countries: if not a reunification, then something close to it.
"It's always the same between these two countries," said Lee Fung-lin, also 38 and an unemployed restaurant worker.
Unlike the women's soccer semifinal between these two countries on Monday, this looks unlikely to be a nail-biter.
But 24 years on from the last finals between these two countries, the back story is not nearly as engrossing.
"The bottom line is the fences are going to go down between these two countries," Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, said.
Today it is the tensions between these two countries that threaten a nuclear war, and the United States needs to re-energize its approach to their problems.
