Sunshine Policy is the foreign policy of South Korea towards North Korea between years 1998 and 2008.

It is declared
by the South Korean prime minister Kim Dae Jung1, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of articulating
the 'Sunshine Policy'. The name 'Sunshine' comes from one of Aesopos's fables 'The North Wind and the Sun' 2. The
main aim of the policy was to soften North Korea's attitudes towards the South by encouraging interaction and
economic assistance. The policy consisted of three basic principles:
1) No armed provocation by the North will be tolerated.
2) The South will not attempt to absorb the North in any way.
3) The South actively seeks cooperation.

1 No South Korean leader generated such dreams as did Kim Dae-jung. His five-year presidency, and his
"sunshine policy" of reconciliation with North Korea reached its spectacular height in June 2000, when he
flew to Pyongyang for the first-ever inter-Korean summit. It was the biggest step toward peace since the
1950-53 Korean War. North Korean "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il hosted him in an atmosphere of confidence
that the half-century of war and confrontation between the two Koreas was nearing an end. In a joint
declaration, the two Kims agreed to resolve "humanitarian" issues, reopen borders and unite families. Four
months later, Kim Dae-jung won the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also called as 'Nelson Mandela' of Asia,
because of his efforts for reconciliation in Korean Peninsula.
2 'The North Wind and the Sun' is a fable which takes its origin from Aesopos's fables. The story, shortly, is as

follows:The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which one of them was the stronger, as a traveler came along
wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveler take his cloak off
should be considered the victor. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more
closely did the traveler fold his cloak around him; and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun
shined out warmly, and immediately the traveler took off his cloak. And so the North Wind was obliged to confess
that the Sun was the stronger of the two.