Political relations with the United States
under President Kim Dae-jung

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Kim Dae-jung: U.S. Military Will Stay After Unification
People’s Daily, 10 July 2000. He argued that the US military presence would create the political framework within which there could be cultural exchanges and cooperative measures as a prelude to reunification [title of article may be misleading].
Double failure for US-South Korea military talks
AFP, Thursday 7 December 2000. No agreement in talks on the killing of refugees at the village of No Gun Ri in July 1950. Discussions on revising an accord on jurisdiction over the 37,000 US troops in the ROK were not even convened for a scheduled final day, so far apart were the two sides.
Kim Dae-jung Meets with US Deputy Secretary of State
People’s Daily, Wednesday 11 December 2002. President Kim Dae-jung called for substantial measures by ROK and US to prevent a recurrence of such incidents as the killing of two Korean school girls by a US armored vehicle. He called for improvements to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The SOFA, adopted in 1966, has been revised twice, but many South Koreans believe it still favors the Americans.