Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248573 
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2021
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[Journal:] Korea Europe Review: an interdisciplinary journal of politics, society, and economics [ISSN:] 2750-4832 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Korea Europe Center [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 1-9
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Korea Europe Center, Berlin
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The history of the post-war division of Germany marks an important point of reference for inter-Korean politics. Both, South Korean president Roh Tae-woo's Nordpolitik starting in 1988 and South Korean president Kim Dae-jung's Sunshine Policy (The Reconciliation and Cooperation Policy Towards the North) of 1998 seem to have been directly inspired by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's so-called Neue Ostpolitik (New Eastern Policy) based on Egon Bahr's concept of Wandel durch Annäherung (change through rapproachment), an early and perhaps decisive step in the de-escalation of the Cold War. Today, the peaceful transition of East Germany toward democracy and the subsequent German unification continue to provide a hopeful historical example that peace and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula may be attainable.
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German unification
non-violent revolution
East Germany
collapse of communism in Eastern Europe
NATO
question of German sovereignty
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