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Article: Post-Summit Forum; What's Next for Two Koreas?
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Now that novelty and euphoria of the remarkable Korean summit, The Three Days That Shook Asia have faded, the world is left scratching its head and wondering what it all adds up to. Has one of the world's most dangerous flashpoints suddenly been defused? Have the tectonic plates of the East Asian strategic equation begun to shift? The short answer is everything has changed, yet nothing has changed.
However symbolic, the first such summit in half a century was indeed a historic achievement, perhaps the beginning of a protracted end game in Korea. It offered new hope of peace and national reconciliation. To see the world's most mysterious political figure ...