[Personal Viewpoint and Analysis of South Korea's reunification policy by President Roh and President Lee

From my personal analysis of President Roh’s policy, I believe that his policy could  increase the civil and cultural exchanges between two Koreas and is able to  maintain good government to government level relationship. This is because, effort had been made to  support the North Korean people, which in turn increases economic, social , cultural  and human right in North Korea.

 But there are also criticisms against President Roh's policy as he argues that this policy is  carrot only unilateral concession with too much government spending.  Moreover, as it emphasizes balanced approach, U.S and South Korea alliance is weaken.

 Most importantly, with nuclear test in 2006, this policy overlooks threat of North Korea.

 On the other hand, President Lee’s policy  had  reduced the  government spending on unification matters and  spending was used for the construct of South Korea's infrastructure.

President  Lee improved alliance with U.S. as he had prioritized relationship with U.S.. However, due to this strict policy, exchanges between two Koreas decreased and mistrust between two governments grew. So, provocation from North Korea and tension between two Korean military had increased.

In conclusion, after my personal analysis and deduction between the strength and weakness each government, we realize that with conditional engagement South Korea can have many bargaining chips to deal with North Korea and with comprehensive engagement South Korea can have civilian level benefits. This include improvement of North Korean citizen’s lives and exchanges between two Korean people. Therefore, I personally feel that adopting the two policies through  enhance each strengths will be a great idea and one of the ways to promote reunification.