The purpose of this paper is to analyse North Korea` foreign oplicy, called the self-feliance foreign oplicy, which was implemented in the mid-1960s Arnong the various factors that can influencce foreign policy, this paper concentrates on the interact...
The purpose of this paper is to analyse North Korea` foreign oplicy, called the self-feliance foreign oplicy, which was implemented in the mid-1960s Arnong the various factors that can influencce foreign policy, this paper concentrates on the interaction of structure, decision maker`s intention. and perception or vales according to Carlsnaes` dynamic model of alalysing foreign policy change. After nation building, there have been two critical structural diversions in the Communist bloc-the Twentieth Party Congress of the CPUS in February 1956 and the Sina0Soviet conflict that began in the late 1950s. In each event. Kim ll-sung attempted to increase DPRK`s policy-making autonomy and exclude the political leverage of to brotherhood countries. Soviet and Chian, in the domestic oplitics. Kim`s strong anti-great power chauvinism was strengthened from his past experiences, and it was reinforced by two countries`s intervention in 1956. These two primary elements had influenced Im ll-sung`s foreign oplicy decision makin gduring his reign. ln the late 1950s. Kim and his partisans concluded the intra-party conflict with two rival groups, the Soviet Korean and Yan`an groups. These events completely monpolized power in domestic politics, As the dispute between China and Soviet aggravated in the 1960s, North Korea could secure its oplicy- making autonomy form these two cuntries. lt had become mare equal that North Korea extended its diplomatic relations to the Third World nations in this period. On the basis of the consecutive oplicies North Korea could implement the self-reliance foreign oplicy in around 1965.