Despite sporadic efforts to improve relations, the two nations have remained at odds ever since.

Although there was a cease-fire in 1953, the two nations officially remain at war because a peace treaty was never signed.

Conquered people or nations, even whole planetary groups, remain at home and the great mass always submits.

Because of this tensions between the two nations remained.

In a world of spreading democracy, how can so vast and talented a nation remain under authoritarian rule?

"We must remember that nations remain quite far apart," he said, "and achieving agreement will be a challenge."

But with few other signs of deterioration, the nation remained at least partly in denial through that year and into last year.

For as long as two years, both nations remained perilously close to a terrible war.

The Nahuatl-speaking nations remained, and they grew in knowledge and ability at about the same pace.

"No nation can remain isolated and indifferent to the struggles of others," he said in a hall that remained, by tradition, largely silent.