Policy Split Over Pyongyang

January 2007 | Ratings Update

Comments from Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung that massive aid may be given to alleviate poverty in the North - despite last year's nuclear test - have generated a policy dispute in South Korea over how to deal with Pyongyang. The main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) has said it plans to submit a no-confidence motion to remove Lee, who took office in December 2006, claiming that his push for economic aid was a political manoeuvre aimed at staging an inter-Korean summit, to influence the presidential election in December 2007. Lee asserts that poverty is one of the reasons that the

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