It has been more than 75 years since the Korean Peninsula was separated. For the last decades, the wish for normalizing the inter-Korean relations and the possibility of reunification have crossed the mind of some South Korean leaders. In the early 2000s, upon the incentive of normalizing their relations with North Korea, South Korea took inspiration from the German Ostpolitik in the development of the Sunshine Policy^[1]. Hence, a legitimate comparison has been developed between the two cooperative policies. For a long time, German reunification was taken as an example of diplomacy in order to deal with North Korea, especially from the Democrat Presidents who have installed the Sunshine policy as a motto. Nowadays, the relevance of the comparison is however debated as the general geopolitical context has changed.

^[1] K.Y. Son, South Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea, (2006), Routledge

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