Unhappy anniversary: Recalling the June 2000 inter-Korean summit
21 years ago, the two Koreas made history — or so it seemed. What went wrong?
Courtesy of Kim Han-jung | Kim Jong Il and Kim Dae-jung read North Korean and South Korean newspapers during their summit. Kim Han-jung (far right) brought the South Korean papers to the summit.
The following article is a column by Aidan Foster-Carter, an honorary senior research fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England.
The following article is a column by Aidan Foster-Carter, an honorary senior research fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England.
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