The year 2000 was a time of hope for on the Korean Peninsula. In South Korea, under progressive President Kim Dae-jung, the nation was emerging from the IMF Crisis. In North Korea, the nation was starting to put the ‘Arduous March’, the famine that left millions of North Koreans dead, behind them. Green shoots began to sprout with leaders in both countries committing solving the question of reunification. In September of the same year, North Korean and South Korean athletes marched as a unified group under a single flag in the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The time looked ripe for the reunification of the Korea's. Twenty years on, the two Korea's are still estranged and still officially at war. In this seminar we look at why reunification did not happen and we look at the chances for unification into the future.
The panellists on the webinar were Dr Jay Song (University of Melbourne), Professor Andrei Lankov (Korea Risk Group), and The University of Queensland's Professor Roland Bleiker and Dr Richard Murray to look at why reunification did not happen and also discuss the chances for future reunification.
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