남북한의 통일정책과 남북대화 전략 노무현 정부의 대북정책 2년 평가와 과제 = Two Years of the Roh Moo-hyun Administration`s North Korea Policy and Its Tasks

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The ``Participatory Government`` led by President Roh Moo-hyun is assigned with an important historic mission to lay the groundwork for the era of a unified Korea and to make progress in relations between the two Koreas based on reconciliation and cooperation, overcoming insecurity in relations between the two since the South-North summit in June 2000. The current government stresses the need for a change in the North``s attitude toward the South based on reciprocity and mutual trust in an effort to overcome the problems caused by the preceding administration``s one-sided provision of support for the North. It also lets it be known that it will not seek to promote a second summit or exchange special envoys with the North until the problem caused by the North``s nuclear program is settled, and that it will not use the North Korean policy in domestic politics. For the past two years the Roh administration had concentrated on keeping the nuclear crisis from worsening, and had not been able to map out a long-term strategy to press forward with its plan to build a peace structure on the Korean peninsula. So far, the Roh administration has been bent on managing the crisis, but now is the time for it to find a way to break through the current situation. In this context, this writer would like to address the following questions. First, the Roh administration now says its strategy is to solve the nuclear issue and develop South-North relations simultaneously, but what will be the most effective way to solve the structural obstacle of the North``s nuclear weapons? Second, now the administration is required to break though the current stalemate in inter-Korean relations, so what will be the way to turn stabilized South-North relations into improved ones? Third, the administration now needs to strengthen its relations with the U.S. and at the same time develop its relations with the North in a positive way, but is there any possibility for both the South and the North to take the lead in their joint efforts in pressing ahead with the peace process on the Korean peninsula?