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Both Korean leaders must be praised for this effort. Since assuming office in 1998, President Kim Dae Jung has steadfastly pursued a bold and consistent "sunshine" policy of engagement with North Korea--despite considerable criticism from his political opponents...
Bosworth commended the "Sunshine Policy" of current South Korean President Kim Dae Jung...
South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung has finally succeeded in getting a date with the world's most resolute geopolitical wallflower, but don't expect a rapid thaw in the Cold War's most intractable conflict. Pyongyang and Seoul announced simultaneously on Monday that President Kim will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in the Northern capital in the first top-level summit between the two states since their creation five decades ago. Although the announcement was clearly timed to coincide with South Korea's midterm elections - in which President Kim had been criticized by the opposition...
...while South Korea has, since the election of Kim Dae-Jung, pursued a policy of reconciliation through famine relief and other economic assistance designed to reduce tensions along what may be the world's most heavily defended border - and the most dangerous posting in the U.S. military - North Korea's policy has been more difficult to fathom. If there's any pattern at all in the periodic bouts of talks with the South, Japan and the U.S. interspersed with episodes of missile launching, gesturing at nuclear weapons proliferation and testing the South's defenses, it's one of extortion. Since...
...they can scuttle this launch at the negotiating table. They've done it before. Pyongyang agreed to abandon plans to convert nuclear-reactor fuel into nuclear weaponry when the U.S. and Japan agreed to pay for oil imports and build two new reactors. And South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung has embarked on a policy of engagement, offering food and investment from South Korean companies. As thanks, North Korea has sent fishing boats into South Korean waters and provoked a naval clash (Seoul's forces sank one ship), dispatched a suspected spy vessel into Japan's seas (Japanese self...