I think that it's just sheer naivety that you can get along with a crazed failed state based on ethnic unity, the idea of being the same race or 민족. Another re

I think that it's just sheer naivety that you can get along with a crazed failed state based on ethnic unity, the idea of being the same race or 민족. Another reason I think is Kim Dae Jung had a radically different vision of what Korea could be, anti-American, pro-socialist and one that is based on nazi like nationalistic views based on the purity and superiority of the Korean people.