Hyundai-Asan led a flurry of South Korean investments that followed a 2000 summit meeting.
North Korea said that in addition to the rapprochement projects, the two sides would also discuss how to jointly commemorate past inter-Korean statements, including one settled during a landmark 2000 summit between the countries' leaders, civilian exchanges and other joint collaboration matters.
Quick to spot a resonant date in the calendar, the UN has declared July 7th (07/07/07, you understand) the official halfway point towards these 2015 deadlines.The 2000 summit was unprecedented in its pulling power, attracting more bigwigs than ever before (even the reclusive North Koreans tried to make it, although they turned back in a huff after an undiplomatic airport search).
In a message in the visitors' log, Ms. Lee wrote that she hoped the two Koreas would achieve an "early reunification" by honoring a 2000 summit agreement in which her husband and Kim Jong-il had promised to encourage political reconciliation and economic exchanges.
And a special investigator with a parliamentary mandate found that Mr. Kim's government had helped funnel $500 million to North Korea in dubious business deals shortly before the 2000 summit meeting, fueling opposition accusations that he had "bribed" the Communist leader and strengthened his chances to win the peace prize.
Park Jie Won and Lim Dong Won, top aides to the former president, Kim Dae Jung, left, who spearheaded a drive for reconciliation with North Korea, were indicted on charges of transferring $100 million to North Korea as a payoff for its agreeing to a 2000 summit meeting between the president and Kim Jong Il, the leader of North Korea.
At the Lisbon 2000 summit, a strategic goal was proposed for the European Union: "to become the most competitive knowledge-based economy with more and better employment and social cohesion by 2010".
Mong-Hun had seen Construction collapse into bankruptcy and was under investigation for secretly routing hundreds of millions of dollars into North Korean coffers to bring about the June 2000 summit between North Korea leader Kim Jong Il and the late South Korean president, Kim Dae-Jung.
This was especially true during the Camp David 2000 summit.
Arafat continued negotiations with Netanyahu's successor, Ehud Barak, at the Camp David 2000 Summit in July 2000.
