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Quote by Roh Moo-hyun
This step today will be followed by many others in days to come. The many steps will gradually erase this forbidden line. The wall will fall.
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The speaker presents one action as the beginning of a larger process. Repeated steps will gradually erase a “forbidden line,” meaning a boundary that has been treated as fixed or off-limits. The final image of the wall falling suggests that continued action will eventually remove the barrier altogether.
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- Official Statement
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