with Trump
the way it did with past presidents.

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deusofnull
Reunification efforts in the late 1990s and early 2000s were complicated by
the shift in US Policy from the Clinton to Bush Admin. Clinton's admin wanted
to support the so called Sunshine Policy, which favored moving towards
reunification.

For the US's part, they agreed to not re apply new sanctions on the North as
long as the North continued to operate within the parameters of their Sunshine
Policy negotiated with the South. That was what was happening, but then Bush
came into office and this policy changed. New sanctions were put upon DPRK and
they would eventually be included in the Bush Admin's "Axis of Evil" (Iran,
Iraq, and North Korea).

This caused the North to go back on its agreements and the Sunshine Policy as
a whole, and did also alignall the comments here but so far I haven't seen anyone
give credit to Kim Jong Un. He's probably a pretty smart dude and has been
planning these moves ever since he was a kid. At the end of all this, he will
agree to "denuclearize" by reducing his nuclear stockpile over a very long
time period; promise to stop doing nuclear research etc. In return he will get
a ton of foreign aid, much weakened sanctions against his country and
legitimacy in the international stage.

But who knows. I am no expert.

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malnourish
Sure, give him some credit. In the same breath that he allowed for and
committed atrocities against his people.

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imbokodo
You mean like the massacre of No Gun Ri and the general policy of shooting
civilians in the Korean war? The Gwangju massacre?

Oh you don't mean the