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TOWARDS KOREAN RECONCILIATION

Towards Korean Reconciliation

Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation

Gabriel Jonsson
Stockholm University, Sweden

First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge
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Gabriel Jonsson 2006

Gabriel Jonsson has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN 13: 978-0-815-39852-3 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-1-351-14440-7 (ebk)

Contents

1. xii

Guide

• APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• ARF Association of South East Asian Nations Regional Forum
• BAPUF Buddhist Association for a Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland (North Korea)
• CDU Christian Democratic Union (East Germany)
• CIA Central Intelligence Agency
• CNN Cable News Network
• COMECON Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
• DCRK Democratic Confederal Republic of Korea
• DM Deutsche (West German) Mark
• DMZ Demilitarized Zone
• EC European Community
• EU European Union
• FAO Food and Agricultural Organization
• FEER Far Eastern Economic Review
• GDP Gross Domestic Product
• GDR German Democratic Republic
• GFKC General Federation of Korean Churches (South Korea)
• GNP Gross National Product
• GPC General Popular Congress (North Yemen)
• IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
• IFRC International Federation of the Red Cross
• IOC International Olympic Committee
• KBS Korean Broadcasting System (South Korea)
• KCNA Korean Central News Agency (North Korea)
• KCT Korean Central Television (North Korea)
• KECC Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Committee
• KEDO Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
• KINU Korea Institute for National Unification
• KNCC Korean National Council of Churches (South Korea)
• KNRC Korean National Red Cross (South Korea)
• KWP Korean Workers' Party
• LDC Least Developed Countries
• MBC Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (South Korea)
• MoU Ministry of Unification (South Korea)
• NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NGO Non-governmental Organization
• NKCF North Korean Christian Federation
• NKFB North Korean Federation of Buddhists
• NNSC Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
• NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty
• NSL National Security Law
• OM Ost (East German) Mark
• SBS Seoul Broadcasting Station
• SED Socialist Unity Party (East Germany)
• SNCC South-North Coordinating Committee
• SNU Seoul National University
• UN United Nations
• UNCHR United Nations Commission on Human Rights
• UNDP United Nations Development Programme
• UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
• UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• US United States
• WCC World Council of Churches
• WHO World Health Organization
• YCIMOR Yemen Company for Investment in Mineral and Oil Resources
• YRG Yemeni Reform Grouping
• YSP Yemeni Socialist Party (South Yemen)

Firstly I wish to extend my gratitude to those who have been kind enough to offer their assistance during the preparation of this book. This stimulating project would never have reached completion without a pair of one-month research visits to South Korea during both 2002 and 2004. I therefore would like to acknowledge Stockholm University, the Center for Pacific Asia Studies at the Institute of Oriental Languages for providing financial support for both of these fact-finding sojourns.

In addition, I wish to express my gratitude to Professor Staffan Rosn at Stockholm University, Head of the Korean Department at the Institute of Oriental Languages, and to Professor Masako Ikegami-Andersson, Head of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies, for their invaluable assistance during the course of the project. I have also drawn great encouragement for the project from seminars held at both the Korean Department and at the Centre for Pacific Asia Studies. In particular, I wish to express my thanks to Doctor Linus Hagstrm at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs and Doctor Anders Uhlin at Lund Universitys Department of Political Science, for their kind advice and assistance.

In Korea, I wish to especially thank the former President of the Korea Institute for National Unification, Doctor Seo Byung-Chul, and his successor Doctor Park Young-Kyu for permitting me to study at the institute. As a guest researcher, I benefited greatly from my affiliation with the institute in terms of collation of relevant material and of course in terms of establishing valuable contacts. I also wish to thank my wife, Lee Hee-Sook, and my daughter, Rebecka Ye-mi, for their extraordinary patience towards me during the preparation of this book. Noel McCarthy has my thanks for editing the English as does Roberto Menkes for his assistance concerning technical matters related to the project. Finally, Liber Kartor AB [Liber Maps Ltd.] deserves my thanks for letting me use their map of the Korean Peninsula reprinted in Bonniers Stora Vrldsatlas [ Bonniers Great World Atlas ] from 1994 with a few additions. Thank you one and all.

Stockholm, 24 January, 2006
Gabriel Jonsson

Map of the Korean Peninsula

Chapter 1
Introduction

Korea is generally considered to be the world's only divided nation following on the unification of both Germany and Yemen, in 1990. According to the South Korean scholar O Ki-sng (1999), Korean unification remains an aspiration due to unique forms of nationalism singularly inherent to both states. The South Korean scholar Park Young-Ho and his associates wrote in (2002) that unification is asserted primarily, as a should-do task whereby the myth of "One People. One Nation" has become a widely popularized catch-cry. The former North Korean diplomat defector Hyn Sng-il writes (1998) that unifying North and South is the greatest wish of the Korean people. Whether this aspiration for unification is actually reflected in the detail of public policies or not will be a primary subject for investigation in this book.

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