Abstract
The June 2000 summit between the leaders of the two Koreas, Kim Jong IL and then president Kim Dae Jung, provided a long-awaited ray of hope to those separated from their relatives by the peninsula's bitter division - the isan kajok or divided families. The divided families' problem has consistently formed a key part of the 'Sunshine policy'. In contrast to the Kim Young Sam government, Kim Dae Jung persistently fought for an improvement in North-South relations and in particular for a resolution to the problem of family separation. This prioritization of the divided families issue certainly caught the public mood in the Republic of Korea (ROK) and alerted the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to, and underlined, the importance of the problem. Given the DPRK's apparent disregard for human rights, how then should the ROK approach negotiation with Pyongyang on humanitarian problems? Keywords: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK); human rights; Kim Dae Jung; Kim Jong IL; Republic of Korea (ROK)
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