Research proposal of unification of South Korea and North Korea
Research Question
What are North and South Korea doing for reunification?
Literature review
Korea is a country that is dividend into two region south Korea and north Korea. Korea gained independence from Japan after World War II, but a conflict occurred because of ideological differences. Despite their shared race, and history, and culture, in 1950, the Korean War began with invasion of North Korea. However, the war went on for about three years before South and North Korea declared the end of Korean war, with the Ceasefire Agreement in 1953. The war resulted to division of South and North Korea to this day. Reunification of South and North Korea in a peaceful way is the official policy line that was embraced by Pyongyang and Seoul in 1972 during a joint communiqué on North-South Korean discussion.
There were subsequent inter-Korean negotiation and dialogue on reunification that were held on various occasions, which failed to attain a solution in developing a modus operandi to defeat the stalemate between the two parties (Kihl& Kim, 2014). This paper aims to discuss what the North and South Korea are doing for the reunification.The issue of reunification attracted a lot of attention from the democracy movement, which believed that a democratic Korea was not attainable without a unified Korea. In 1987, the movement felt that it was time for a push for the much awaited perennial objective. Reunification was a hot discussion in the 1970’s and 1980’s but was supressed by the power of anti-communist ideology. From this perspective, reunification became a relatively quiet and sensitive issue. Authorities such as Anti-communist Law and the National Security Law were the effective devices utilised to silence political challenges by equating pro-communism and anti-government activism (Shin & Chang, 2011). In 1984, the Chun’s liberalisation policy opened a new chance and as a result reunification re-emerged in the public discussion.
This was seen through movements such as the People’s Movement Coalition for Democracy that led to the establishment of reunification in March 95. This organisation enhanced the concept that the reunification and democracy were one. In 1987, the political liberalisation enabled activists to pursue reunification without fear. For instance, in the spring of 1988, a candidate for the chair of the student association at Seoul National University called for a meeting between North and South Korean students led by Kim Chung-ki (Shin & Chang, 2011).The task of the movement was to liberate South Korea that needed a base among people. Construction of a minjung democracy was a step aimed at reunification of free Korea. The movements involved were not as such an obstruct formulation of political norms but received practical consequences. Each movement arranged its actions and networks but joined forced during the June uprising (Katsiaficas, 2012).
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