Rethinking future paths on the Korean Peninsula.

The key objective of this paper lies in examining and isolating looming security challenges on the Korean Peninsula and not reviewing the pros and cons of sunshine policy, three major points are emphasized. First, notwithstanding positive dividends stemming from the sunshine policy, it is important to also articulate its major shortcomings. Second, the predominance of groupthink dynamics and self-imposed de facto censorship within key government agencies and semi-official policy circles on issues that are considered to be sensitive to South-North relations. And third, populism, autonomy, and anti-Americanism as fashionable items in the search for longer-term foreign policy and national security options.