Named after the Aesop fable in which the sun persuades a man to take off his coat after the North Wind fails to do so, the policy sought to engage the North.
Chang Yong-seok, senior researcher at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, suggested that the announcement was designed to remind the South Korean public that there is an ever-present danger from the North and to shore up support for the government's North Korean policy.
Canadians are starting to debate whether the main aim of policy towards the north should be the assertion of sovereignty, and thus spending big money on military kit, or trying to improve the dire social conditions in which people live there, as many northerners would like.
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Diplomacy should be the "end game" for the administration's policy regarding North Korea, said Richardson, one of the few U.S. politicians to have visited the country.
No-one at the Delhi Charter School in rural north-east Louisiana realised the policy was wrong, said its chairman.
The league that had to be called on the carpet by congress over steroid use less than a decade ago now has arguably the strongest drug policy of all the Big-4 North American sports leagues.
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The participants included Bill Gentry of Williams College, Jim Hines of the University of Michigan, George Plesko of the University of Connecticut, Doug Shackelford of the University of North Carolina, and Eric Toder of the Tax Policy Center.
The Tyneside outpost of the Institute of Public Policy Research, IPPR North, has published a report that says the north of England risks being squeezed out by the relative economic success of Scotland and London - unless, that is, it gets some strong leadership.
The six new bodies established will harmonise north-south policy on a range of issues on both sides of the border.
The South Korean leader also discussed his "sunshine policy" of greater openness with the North when he met U.S. President George W. Bush in February.
One such approach is to make clean energy innovation the guiding north star of our climate policy choices.
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And Cheney said he argued against the administration's policy on North Korea, which tested a nuclear weapon in 2006.
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On the foreign policy side, on North Korea, has North Korea, in fact, offered to allow U.N. nuclear inspectors back into the country?
It all coincided in policy with real tax rates north of 70% and monetary policy that fed the price level and government receipts as opposed to growth.
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Dayne Batten is affiliated with the University of North Carolina Department of Public Policy.
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Jonathan Oberlander, who teaches health policy at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, says he's not all that surprised that the effort has been painstaking so far.
Roh has staunchly backed a "sunshine policy" of engagement with the North.
Energy policy (North America is the Saudi Arabia of shale oil).
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Yet back in Seoul, South Korea's president, Kim Dae Jung, is still relying on his policy of trying to engage the North in some sort of dialogue.
But they are dogged by property speculation from the north, and an economy distorted by European policy, as much as they are by their own shortcomings as a young democracy.
The judge batted those aside, saying nothing she did would change North Carolina tax policy or its ability to collect money from Amazon, assuming that is what the state had in mind.
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His work on international security, international economics and European and Middle Eastern Affairs make him the perfect person to coordinate our policy in this time of great challenge and opportunity in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf.
But the idea that America should set aside its uranium concerns is given a bipartisan rebuttal in the current issue of Foreign Affairs by Robert Gallucci, who negotiated the 1994 plutonium deal with North Korea under the Clinton administration, and Mitchell Reiss, the just departed head of policy planning in the Bush administration's State Department.
And on a separate foreign policy issue, the President referred to North Korea in his interview this weekend.
Chris France, of the North York Moors National Park Authority, said government policy was to refuse planning permission unless there were "truly exceptional circumstances".
There are a couple of backbench debates - one on the impact of student visa policy on admissions to and a short debate on industry and recent economic developments in the north-east of England.
In public, and for now, it's unlikely that the US will signal any easing of its policy towards North Korea.
But a Policy Exchange poll suggested that people in the north hold Margaret Thatcher in higher esteem as a PM than Gordon Brown.
The latest example of the above is Jane Shaw, president of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy in North Carolina.
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That is the policy established by Gov. Jim Hunt in North Carolina, where test scores made the biggest gains in the nation last year.
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