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| White Paper Declares Sunshine Policy Dead and Buried |
| 2010-12-12 |
| [Chosun Ilbo] The Unification Ministry on Wednesday released a new white paper which states that the Sunshine Policy of engagement with North Korea has failed. "Despite outward development over the past decade, inter-Korean relations have been under criticism from the public in terms of quality and process," the white paper says. "They have in fact become increasingly disillusioned with the North and more worried about security as the North continued its nuclear arms program." The white paper says that despite massive aid from South Korea and inter-Korean exchanges and cooperation during the last decade, neither the North's economy nor its people's lives have improved. "No satisfactory progress has been made in the issues of separated families, South Korean prisoners of war and abduction victims," it adds. "The North has made no positive change in proportion to aid and cooperation" from South Korea. Over the past 10 years, "the North Korean regime has adopted perverse foreign and inter-Korean policies," it says. As an example it cites the North's nuclear brinkmanship. It warns against future under-the-table deals like massive payments in 2002 to bring about the first inter-Korean summit. In future inter-Korean exchanges, cooperation projects and aid should take place only in formal and transparent ways, it says. The white paper adds that in sinking the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan in March "the North proved that it has been consistently maintaining a reunification doctrine based on a strategy to turn the entire Korean Peninsula communist despite its outward policy in favor of cooperation and reconciliation." Since 1998, "the North has tried to look as if it made efforts to build inter-Korean cooperation and trust by accepting aid amounting to about US$4.5 billion, engaging in exchanges and economic cooperation, and responding to about 270 rounds of inter-Korean talks. But behind the South's back, it has launched provocations in the West Sea and conducted nuclear tests." The white paper blames the Kim Dae-jung and the Roh Moo-hyun administrations for having focused on vague sentimentalism toward the North or unilaterally adopting a leftwing ideology, and stresses the importance of raising awareness of the "two-faced" nature of the North Korean regime in the future. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Sunshine sity! |
| Posted by: Jeremiah Flainter9609 2010-12-12 09:54 |
| #3 In the bar called Gitche Gumee Way uptown on 82nd Where they serve the giggle water There sits shoe clerk Melvin Watha Drinking cola laced with bourbon. When the far more cheery drunkards Call out gaily, "Hiya, Watha!" Keeps on boozing, gets more sullen, Falls across the bar unconscious. Urving Kahn |
| Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-12-12 08:12 |
| #2 Dane-Geld A.D. 980-1016 It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation Kipling |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-12-12 02:14 |
| #1 "The North has made no positive change in proportion to aid and cooperation" Finally the lightbulb is coming on south of the DMZ. Kipling was right. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-12-12 02:11 |