The term politics of the sun comes from The North Wind and the Sun, one of Aesop`s fables. In 2000, Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong-il met at a summit, the first conference between the leaders of the two states after the Korean War. The summit was held from June 13 to 15, and at the end of the meeting, the North-South joint declaration between the two Koreas was adopted on June 15. In the statement, the two Koreas agreed on five points to solve the problem of independent reunification, promote peaceful reunification, solve humanitarian problems such as the issue of separated families, promote cooperation and exchanges in their economy and dialogue between North and South. However, after the summit, talks between the two states got bogged down. Criticism of the policy intensified and Unification Minister Lim Dong-won lost a vote of no confidence on September 3, 2001. Gerd Müller: «Climate change has long been a matter of survival for all humanity. The hydrogen strategy allows us to make a big leap towards climate-neutral fuels and a global energy transition. «Green» hydrogen and its derivatives such as methanol have the potential to become the clean «oil» of tomorrow. North African countries, in particular, are suitable production sites, given that the amount of sunshine available seems almost unlimited.
With Morocco, we are developing the first industrial green hydrogen plant in Africa. In this way, we are creating jobs for many young people, strengthening Germany`s technological leadership and helping to achieve international climate goals.» Despite the positive and negative reactions and criticisms of the Sunshine Policy, the effectiveness of the Sunshine Policy is still debated today. Even opponents of the sun policy agree that emergency humanitarian aid released by the international community and South Korea helped alleviate North Korea`s great famine in the late 1990s. However, the resulting policy of cooperation actually led to a counter-reaction to the goodwill argument that the government was instead directing economic aid and direct investment, saving, or even repatriating, the hypermilitarized North Korean regime. This delays the inevitable economic reforms that, in turn, have halted the nuclear crisis. This debate had now entered into a very decisive combination. The recent so-called so-called hydrogen bomb test appeared to strongly distort the effectiveness and ability to achieve the desired result of a positive incentive policy on the basis of the Sunshine Policy. . . .
