Many South Koreans look fondly on what President Kim called his sunshine policy of uncritically engaging the North, saying it transformed the relationship between the two.

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"I've never witnessed so much pent up demand, " said Kelly Mack, president of Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, which is handling marketing and sales for the building.

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It has also been alleged that the South Korean government was aware and supportive of the fund transfers as a means of effectively bribing North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il to participate and, thereby, to advance the "Sunshine Policy" of his South Korean counterpart, then-President Kim daeJong.

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For example, last week he served notice on South Korean President Kim Dae Jung that the latter's so-called "Sunshine Policy" of detente with North Korea could not be safely pursued with a regime in Pyongyang that was an unreliable partner in disarmament and other agreements.

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