“With just weeks to go before South Korea’s presidential
election at the end of last year, Seoul’s newspapers were full of
stories about historic North-South cooperation.“Among the pictures of the departing South Korean president Roh
Moo-hyun walking across the border to clasp hands with North
Korea’s Kim Jong-il and freight trains crossing between the
countries for the first time in 56 years, there was just enough
room on a few of the front pages for reports of a technology deal
struck between the two leaders…”