September 18, 2007 (LPAC)--Former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, the author of the Sunshine Policy of peaceful cooperation and eventual reunification of the two Koreas, spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. today where he expressed optimism about relations between North and South Korea. Kim's address focused on how the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula will be the main item for the upcoming Inter Korean Summit. Kim also revealed how South Korea likes the current U.S. approach to North Korea of diplomacy, and talks rather than the 2001 approach, of breaking agreements, which turned ultimately into the "axis of evil" speech by Bush, and threats to attack North Korea.

Kim's speech also occurred at a time when South Korean officials are denouncing the statements from U.S. and Israeli officials charging that North Korea is secretly trying to arm Syria with nuclear weapons, and hide its own nuclear program in other countries that the U.S. has declared as "rogue."