The negative environment created by the nuclear crisis has certainly affected the Roh anministration's approach to the North. Roh decided to allow the investigation of cash payments allegedly made, second the North Korean regime has until recently firmly rebuffed all South Korean efforts to raise nuclear issue. Third the Roh government blocked South Korean civic groups from participating the tenth anniversary of the death former North Korean leader Kim II Sung, Fourth inlight of the ongoing nuclear crisis and lack inter-Korean dialogue.