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  • North Korea says bribe was 'brotherly love' for Seoul

    03/10/2003 4:53:24 PM PST · by MadIvan · 10 replies · 284+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | March 11, 2003 | Richard Spencer
    A secret £320 million payment to bring about a summit between the two Korean nations was not a bribe, but an "expression of brotherly love", said the North yesterday in its first comment on the scandal in the South's capital Seoul. Revelations of the payments by a subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate Hyundai have led to calls for the former president, Kim Dae-jung, to hand back the Nobel peace prize he was awarded after the summit, and even to be prosecuted. A vote by the National Assembly to order a special inquiry into the payments overshadowed the assumption of...