It’s really important to note something that the author hadn’t mentioned that I feel is important; Dae Jung’s Sunshine Policy was only as mildly successful as it was because of the outright bribery and buying of Kim Jong-il’s temporary cooperation. The previous strategy of enticing North Korea to the table by using carrots-on-a-stick was completely demonstrated to be untenable as a future solution as so far as Jong-Il was around. Wealthy South Korean financiers are always interested in some form of investment in the North Korea more or less as a future investment in a unified Korea, but what if the current and future South Korean administration’s refuse to play ball again? The grossly over-reaching demands by the North are now out of the questSouth Korea’s election in 2002 was won for a lot of reasons but this Sunshine Policy and the public enthusiasm made the policy’s continuation a key plank for the late Roh Moo-hyun’s campaign, we all understand what happened. The revelation of how they’d won Kim Jong-il’s participation makes any future attempts along those lines (Sunshine Policy II: Electric Boogaloo) more difficult. I understand I added nothing new specifically, however I am curious what further insight can anyone bring and maybe even offer an opinion on where the relationship between the two can go from here.