Different Paths Followed by the Two Koreas

1. Different Paths Followed by the Two Koreas

4. Night Image of the Two Koreas After Five Decades

5. North Korea

9. North Korea • Communist system • The world most isolated regime & economic backwardness • Dictatorship and human rights issues • Nuclear development & ‘military-first policy’

10. “Juche” (Self Reliance) Ideology: • Symbolizes autonomy or identity in ideology, independence in politics, self-sufficiency in economy and reliance on Korea’s own forces in national defense. • Characteristics of North Korean system: - Acceptance of hereditary succession of power - Most militarized country among communist countries - Anti-American education

11. South Korea

16. South Korea One of the most successful postwar economic and political development cases • 12th largest economy (member of OECD) • 12th largest trading country • 11th in global competitiveness (WEF 2007) • 1st in university enrollment • 1st in broadband penetration (90% of households) • Fully democratized political system

17. IDEOLOGY • Left/Progressive • Democracy • Anti-authoritarianism • Nationalism • Reconciliation w/ NK • Labor (Minjung) • Right/Conservative • Development • Mobilization • Anti-Communism • S.Korean State • Capital (e.g.Chaebol)

18. 2007 Election • Lee Myung-bak: Conservative GNP • 48.7% • 11.49 million votes • Chung Dong-young: UNDP • 26.2% • 6.17 million votes • Lee Hoe-chang: Ultra-Conservative Independent • 15.6%

19. Recent Developments in Inter-Korean Relations

21. Inter-Korea Agreements & Documents, 1953-Present • Total 92 agreements & documents: • 1953: Armistice Agreement • 1972: Inter-Korean Joint Communique • 1991-1992 (11 on Inter-Korean Basic Agreement) • 1994-1997 (9 on DPRK-US Agreed Framework-related) • 2000-2004-2007 (69+1 since the Summit in 2000)

22. South Korea’s Policy Towards North Korea • From confrontation to reconciliation • Engagement policy of North Korea during the last decade · dialogue and cooperation · confidence building · peaceful coexistence · prosperity on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia • Peaceful and gradual process of unification

23. Sunshine Policy Principles: • Not allow any armed provocation hampering peace on the peninsula • Don’t absorb North Korea • Push reconciliation and cooperation with North beginning with those areas which can be most easily agreed upon

24. Sunshine Policy • Engagement Policy • Reconciliation and Cooperation • Peaceful co-existence not unification • Dialog and Deterrence • Separation of Economics and Politics • Promote peace and mutual prosperity instead of inciting mutual enmity and conflict

25. Inter-Korean Relations • Humanitarian assistance · South Korea is the biggest donor county to the North • People’s exchanges · In 2005, 88,000 South Koreans visited the North (more than the total number of visitors during the previous five decades) · 1.5m South Korean tourists to Mt. Geumgang since 1998

26. SK Government Aid to North Korea, 1995-2004 Year Aid Amount (USD) Note 1995 232,000,000 Rice (150,000 MT) direct 1996 3,050,000 Grain, P milk via UN 1997 26,670,000 Grain, P milk via UN 1998 11,000,000 Grain, flour via UN 1999 28,250,000 Fertilizer - direct 2000 78,630,000 Fertilizer – direct 2001 70,450,000 Fertilizer, grain, underwear, medicine – D 2002 83,750,000 Fertilizer, grain, med – Direct 2003 87,020,000 Med, cash (Unicef), fertilizer, grain -D 2004 740,000 Yongchon ER supplies, medicines, etc.-D

27. SK NGO Aid to North Korea, ’95-’04

28. Economic Cooperation

29. Economic cooperation: • Inter-Korean trade volume : 1.35 billion USD (South Korea has become the 2nd largest trading partner of the North within a decade) * North Korea’s Trade Volume : 4 billion USD • Gaeseong Industrial Complex :  a collaborative project

30. Gaeseong, the city next to the DMZ

31. Inter-Korean Summit Meetings (2000, 2007) • Major results of the 2007 Summit: (Peace building) · cooperation on denuclearization and establishment of a peace regime · reduction of military tension and the holding of a defense ministers’ meeting · holding Prime Minister’s meeting (Economic cooperation) · creating a Special Peace and Cooperation Zone in the West Sea · constructing ship-building complexes and repairing roads · expanding Gaeseong Industrial Complex (Reconciliation) · expanding the reunion of separated families · promoting exchanges and cooperation in social and cultural areas

32. North Korean Nuclear Issue

33. 6 Party talks : Two Koreas, US, Japan, China, Russia • Progress: (North Korea’s action to be taken by the end of 2007) · disable key nuclear facilities · provide a complete and correct declaration of all its nuclear programs (Other Six Party’s action) ·economic and energy assistance up to the equivalent of 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil · discuss normalization of US-North Korea relations, Japan-North Korea relations (Future course of action) · hold a Six Party Ministerial Meeting · dismantle North Korea’s nuclear facilities

34. Long-term Goals · to establish a permanent peace regime on the Korean Peninsula · to develop a multilateral security forum in Northeast Asia