(Taik-young Hamm: Professor, Political Science, Kyungnam University) *This article is reproduced with author's permission. Originally published in Asian Perspective, Vol.25, No.2 (2001), pp.123-51. by Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University. The inter-Korean summit talks laid historic ground work for a new era of peace on the...
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I. Introduction Today we commemorate the first anniversary of the 6.15 North-South Joint Declaration which was announced last year at the North-South summit meeting. Following this historic event we wondered if this was a faint sign of the beginning of a new era for our nation that has endured such a long history of hardship and suffering. However...
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Editor's Note

Archives/ASQ : 2001/04/03 00:00
To Readers, Owing to enthusiastic support from the readers of the Asia Solidarity Quarterly, we are able to publish the fourth issue. On behalf of all the members of the Editorial Board, the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, and the Resource Centre for Asian NGOs, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. T...
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Prof. Lee, Sam-Sung Dept. of International Relations, Catholic University sunglee@www.cuk.ac.kr The National Missile Defense system has not been initiated solely by the Republican Party. The Clinton administration established Rumsfeld Commission, headed by current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to plan for a Theater Missile Defense syst...
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The Korean people have waited for 55 years to fly directly to Pyongyang, which took only one hour and two minutes. The summit meeting is an historic incident since the division of the peninsula, thus the meeting makes all the people in the peninsula excited. Regretful sighing spreads all over the peninsula; We should have met much earlier! The Kor...
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