The Unification Ministry apparently omits the term "Sunshine Policy" in a report it will submit Monday to president-elect Lee Myung-bak's Transition Committee, it emerged Sunday.
There, the ministry will reportedly tell the committee about any problems in matters the Roh Moo-hyun administration agreed with North Korea, including at the latest summit last year. Since the October summit alone, the Roh administration has reached as many as 200 agreements with the North.
An official said, "I didn't see the term 'Sunshine Policy' in the report. The [new] government's North Korea policy is 'policy for peace and prosperity.'" Another official said, "The 'Sunshine Policy' is already an archaic term."
In a report, the Unification Ministry deals chiefly with the merits and demerits of the Roh administration's North Korea policy and with the president-elect's roadmap for "Denuclearization and Opening 3000" featuring his own.
The ministry will tell the committee that it will not be easy to establish a joint fishing zone due to controversy over the Northern Limit Line, the de facto borderline in the West Sea, as part of a peace zone -- a key item in the October agreement.
According to a ministry document the Chosun Ilbo has seen, the ministry will restructure as an organization planning and implementing the president-elect's North Korea policy.
It will also report a year-by-year plan to the committee on realizing his campaign promise to build Nadeul Island -- a complex for inter-Korean economic cooperation on a 29.70 million sq.m-wide area 10 times the size of Yeouido in Seoul in the mouth of the Han River northeast of Ganghwa Island.
The report will include an environmental evaluation of the construction area this year.
