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Kim Kook-Shin

Kim Kook-Shin is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of International Studies of the Korean Institute for National Unification (KINU). KINU is a non-profit research institute commissioned to study the issues regarding the unification of the Korean peninsula and to develop unification policy recommendations for the government of the Republic of Korea.

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Don't let a cloud stop the sunshine: the new president and the legacy of South-North relations

The new president in South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, comes to power at a critical moment. The real advances of President Kim Dae-jung’s ‘sunshine policy’ towards North Korea are under severe pressure from the North’s nuclear weapons programme and its inclusion in President Bush’s ‘axis of evil’. Will the logic of the sunshine policy – a peace system on the Korean peninsula – be sustained amidst the global security crisis?