At a press briefing in Seoul this week, former Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan, chairperson of the main opposition Democratic United Party, told foreign journalists that when it comes to bringing about peace on the Korean Peninsula, that the positive results  in inter-Korean relations achieved by two liberal South Korean presidents, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, began to fade when South Korea’s current conservative hardline president Lee Myung-bak took office. Adding that under the Lee administration, “military clashes between the two Koreas are not uncommon any longer,” the DUP head advocated finalizing discussions regarding a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula,