The "Dissolution" or Persistence of the Northeast Asian Cold War Regime: Focusing on the ROK's "Post Cold War" Diplomacy

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380188
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: KIMIYA Tadashi 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (30221922)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 韓国 / 北朝鮮 / 朝鮮半島 / 冷戦 / 北方外交 / 日韓関係 / 米韓関係 / デタント

Outline of Final Research Achievements

My research has focused on how the Korean cold war was developed according to the transformation of global cold war by making reference of much historical records of US, Japan, and ROK, and succeed in getting the knowledge that during the 1970s President Park Chung Hee had already adopted Nordpolitik (Northern Policy), which would be seriously advanced during the 1980s by the Chun and Roh administrations. Nordpolitik was ROK’s foreign policy in order to take advantage of its political, economic, and diplomatic superiority over DPRK as the initiative policy selection among its fierce competition against DPRK.
Moreover, based on such knowledge, I make clear the fact that Japan has consecutively helped ROK achieve its diplomatic goals by all means available. Taking such historical facts into serious consideration, I insist that both ROK and Japan should construct our new productive relations even though our relations were full of frictions facing the 50th anniversary of normalization.

Free Research Field

国際政治学　朝鮮半島地域研究