The Research on South Korea’s Independent Diplomacy during the Period of the Roh Moo-hyun

• Main Authors: Yueh-Chen Huang, 黃悅貞
• Other Authors: 蔡明彥
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57849873167668126910

碩士 === 中興大學 === 國際政治研究所 === 95 === Abstract In the aftermath of the Cold War, the Korean Peninsula is still under conflict due to the division of Republic of Korea and the Democratic People''s Republic of Korea. However, along with transformation being happened in north Asia, Republic of Korea is aggressive to transform the past approach affiliated with US into an autonomous strategy in diplomacy, pursuing the extreme interest of the country. The keynote of this thesis is to study the causes which dominate the direction and content in diplomacy during the era of Roh Moo-hyun and the effects produced by Roh’s polices. The thesis mainly employs the theory, the political system of David Easton, to analyze the autonomous diplomacy adopted by Roh Moo-hyun. Firstly, the factors, influencing diplomatic polices, include domestic and foreign aspects. At domestic aspect, Korean are much more confident because of their political and economic achievement. Furthermore, along with the Korean social transformation, the south-north Korean conciliation and anti-US trend arisen in this country, those factors prompt Korean to change the unfair affiliation with the America. As to foreign aspect, along with the transformation in Northeast Asia, strengthening relationship with China and different attitude toward North Korea with the America, South Korea intends to turn pro-American policies into a flexible strategy which may create the optimum interest of this country. Secondly, the independent diplomacy President Roh Moo-hyun proposed illustrates several extensive goals and policies. Peace and Prosperity Policy for north Korea and defense capacity reinforcement for South Korea. He also intends to construct the South Korea as the Northeast hub and the "balancer" in Northeast Asia. Finally, this study analyzes domestic and regional effects which the independent diplomacy has generated. This study discovers that the independent diplomacy presents a pendular situation between idealism and realism, because it is affected by domestic and international environment. Also its range is influenced by relevant issues around those surroundings. At present, the optimal strategy for South Korea is to maintain Korea-U.S. Alliance, to keep good relations with china, and to maintain balancing diplomacy with surrounding countries.