Fifteen years ago this month a historic event in the history of post-Cold War Korea took place: the first inter-Korean summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korea’s then-President Kim Dae-jung.

The efforts netted the South Korean president a Nobel Prize and launched a new era of cooperation between the two, with the founding of the Mount Kumgang Tourist Region and the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

In subsequent years the event has lost much of its luster. It would later be revealed that the Kim administration had funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to North Korea through Hyundai Asan