President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea actively attempted to reduce tensions between the two Koreas under the Sunshine Policy, but this produced few immediate results.

In diplomacy, Kim Dae-jung pursued the " Sunshine Policy ", a series of efforts to reconcile with North Korea.

However, as North Korea did not cooperate for a peaceful coexistence, and with the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 changing the US's view on North Korea, the efficacy of the Sunshine Policy was brought into question.

His " Sunshine Policy " of engagement with North Korea set the stage for the historic June 2000 Inter-Korean summit.

In June 2000, a historic first North-South summit took place, part of the South's continuing Sunshine Policy of engagement.

Kim Dae-jung's " Sunshine Policy " of engagement with North Korea set the stage for the historic June 2000 Inter-Korean summit.

Despite the Sunshine Policy and efforts at reconciliation, the progress was complicated by North Korean missile tests in 1993, 1998, 2006 and 2009., relationships between North and South Korea were very tense ; North Korea had been reported to have deployed missiles, ended its former agreements with South Korea, and threatened South Korea and the United States not to interfere with a satellite launch it had planned.

In November 2010, Unification Ministry officially declared the Sunshine Policy a failure, thus bringing the policy to an end.

His policy of engagement with North Korea has been termed the Sunshine Policy.

The effect of the Sunshine Policy was questioned by the US newspaper The Village Voice, which cited the money transfers and the coverup of atrocities in the North.

Kim called for restraint against the North Koreans for detonating a nuclear weapon and defended the continued Sunshine Policy towards Pyongyang to defuse the crisis.

In 1998, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung implemented the " Sunshine Policy " to improve North-South relations and to allow South Korean companies to start projects in the North.

In 2000, Kim Dae Jung was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of the Sunshine Policy.

Under Kim Dae-jung's administration the Sunshine Policy was first formulated and implemented.

Kang disagrees with claims that the Sunshine Policy has led to a settlement of peace between North and South and questions the concept of no-strings-attached humanitarian aid, saying " it is important to understand that North Koreans are starving not because of a lack of aid from South Korea or the U. S., but because they are deprived of freedom.

Some critics of the Sunshine Policy contend that rather than increasing the chances of reunification or undermining the regime in North Korea, it has been used instead for political gain in domestic politics in the South.

Many South Korean conservative-leaning observers see the weakening of the US-South Korea alliance as being due in large part to the Sunshine Policy ; they say it has led the South to favor the North's interests over those of its ally the United States and that it leads South Korean politicians to unreasonably mute or censor criticism of the North and even to ignore the sacrifices of its own soldiers so as to avoid upsetting the North.

Nonetheless, the government of South Korea insisted that at least some aspects of the Sunshine Policy, including the Mount Gumgang Tourist Region and the Kaesong Industrial Region would continue.

In November 2010, the South Korean Unification Ministry officially declared the Sunshine Policy a failure, thus bringing the policy to an end.

* Sunshine Policy in a Nutshell, a publication of the Federation of American Scientists.

* The Future of the Sunshine Policy, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, 15 June 2001

* Terrorism Eclipses The Sunshine Policy: Inter-Korean Relations and the United States, Asia Society, March 2002

* South Korea Formally Declares End to Sunshine Policy, Voice of America, 18 November 2010

North Korea has been the subject of international sanctions since the Korean War, which were eased under the Sunshine Policy and by U. S. President Bill Clinton, but they were tightened again in 2010.

In 1648, preacher John Elliott was quoted in Thomas Shepherd's book " Clear Sunshine of the Gospel " with an account of the difficulties the Pilgrims were having in using the Indians to harvest cranberries as they preferred to hunt and fish.

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Fahrenheit 451 inspired the Birmingham Repertory Theatre production " Time Has Fallen Asleep in the Afternoon Sunshine ", which was performed at the Birmingham Central Library in April 2012.

Instead of running off like the other dates, Sunshine Doré, a would-be actress, assumes that the act was staged and eagerly joins in.

Campbell happened to be making an album by Canadian musician ( and present-day CKTB radio personality ) Tim Denis at the time and Twain was featured on the backing vocals of the song Heavy on the Sunshine.

Sunshine was needed but it turned out to be a dreadfully overcast day.

After beginning the 1930s with a series of non-musical plays, I Lived With You ( 1932 ), Fresh Fields, Proscenium, Sunshine Sisters, Flies in the Sun ( all 1933 ) and Murder in Mayfair ( 1934 ), Novello returned to composition in 1935 with Glamorous Night, which was the first of a series of enormously popular musicals.

Like most of the songs on Jonathan Edwards, " Sunshine " was written shortly after Edwards left the band.

" " Sunshine " reached # 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R. I. A. A.

The Republic of Korea's 1980s policy of Nordpolitik was named in allusion to Ostpolitik ; a similar concept is Sunshine policy, the successor to Nordpolitik.

This was followed by the Unlimited Sunshine Tour, a traveling festival headlined and planned by the band and featuring Modest Mouse, De La Soul and The Flaming Lips.

A second Unlimited Sunshine Tour was undertaken in 2003, featuring Cake, Cheap Trick and The Hackensaw Boys.

This was followed by a tour of Europe, as well as concerts in Australia and Jakarta, along with a 2006 repeat of the Unlimited Sunshine Tour, featuring Cake, Tegan and Sara and Gogol Bordello.

In 1954 the original span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was opened, replacing earlier ferry service.

Tragedy struck on May 9, 1980 when the southbound span of the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge was struck by the freighter MV Summit Venture during a storm, sending over 1200 feet ( 366m ) of the bridge plummeting into Tampa Bay.

Originally known as The Hi-Fi's, the group changed its name to The 5th Dimension in late 1966 and was best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits " Up, Up and Away ", " Stoned Soul Picnic ", " Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In ", " Wedding Bell Blues ", " One Less Bell to Answer ", "( Last Night ) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All ", and The Magic Garden LP.

In 1957, while playing piano at a New York City jazz club called the Showplace he was asked to write a show to replace one that had transferred ( that show was Little Mary Sunshine ).

Sunshine Depot at Mile 215. 3 was established in 1918, but was moved to higher ground in 1936.

In 1922 the name of the community was changed, for promotional purposes to Winter Beach, " Where the Sunshine Spends the Winter.

The Dixie Highway, which was developed between 1915 and 1927, had divisions running down the east coast ( present-day U. S. 1 ) and the center of the state ( present-day U. S. 441 ) was an important route for early " Tin Can Tourists " to reach the southern part of the Sunshine State.