This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

There's a new administration in the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea.

That administration, as previous, looks to solving an imponderable, which is to reunite or reorganize the Korean Peninsula,

divided many decades now since the incomplete conclusion of violence called the Korean War.

I've read through what I can of the Korean War.

My father, after being in the Second World War, was also in the Korean War.

However, there's not much material to help us understand what happened then and why it hasn't been solved by now.

I pay attention then to David Maxwell, who's here to help me understand the present administration

and what it wants to do about this divided country. David Maxwell is the Vice President's

Center for Asia Pacific Strategy as well as a senior fellow at the Global Peace Foundation.

The news is there's a new minister of unification. His name is Chung Dung Yang, and he is

proposing what some have called Sunshine Policy 2.0. We need to know what 1.0 was first.

David, a very good evening to you. Thank you for this explication. Let's begin at the beginning,

however. What was the Sunshine Policy 1.0 that is now

regarded as not successful? Good evening to you. Good evening. The Sunshine Policy 1.0 was

implemented by then President Kim DeJung in 1997, which came at the end of the Great Famine, the arduous March of 1994 to 1996.

And the basic concept was the use of carrots, incentives to change North Korean behavior.

And reaching out, providing resources, and an open hand would change North Korean behavior.

And what happened is more than a billion dollars was transferred from South Korea to North Korea.

And this saved the regime from the collapse

that was potentially catastrophic at the end of this arduous march. It saved the regime.

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