article_snippet: Seven decades of separation has seen even the language of North and South Korea split into two different dialects.
article_snippet: Two countries, though enemies, are tied together by history, by family and by language - but only to a point.
article_snippet: The Korean Peninsula's 70-year split has created a widening linguistic divide that produces misunderstandings, hurt feelings and sometimes even laughter.
article_snippet: But the differences show how language can change when one half of the country becomes an international economic powerhouse and the other isolates itself, suspicious of outside influences.
article_snippet: But as is often the case, political tensions have interfered with progress.
article_snippet: Even language experts from the two countries can have trouble understanding each other.
highlights_snippet: Two countries are tied together by history, by family and by language .
  