The Panmunjom Declaration adopted at the South-North summit on April 27, 2018 promised to make the state of truce in the Korean peninsula into the end of the war and a peace regime, to ‘complete denuclearization’ of the nuclear issue that had taken more than 20 years, and to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in economic and social cultures. The key points of the Panmunjom Declaration can be summarized as the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, the transition to the peace regime of the armistice system, and the alleviation of military tensions on the Korean peninsula and promotion of exchanges and cooperation. The denuclearization, the peace regime, the institutionalization of the divided countries and the exchange of the private sector are essential tasks for permanently establishing peace on the Korean peninsula. North Korea and the United States held the historical summit for the first time since then, which had maintained hostile relations for 70 years since the Korean War. The June 12 meeting of the NK-US summit in Singapore concluded with a brief, abstract joint statement agreed upon through twists and turns. In the joint statement, North Korea and the US will work together to establish a permanent and solidified peace regime on the Korean Peninsula in order to establish a new North Korea-US relationship, and North Korea will reaffirm the Panmunjom talks and make efforts to denuclearize of the Korean peninsula. Although the results of the talks are somewhat different from each other, they are generally regarded as the first meeting between North Korea and the US, and will be a significant turning point in establishing a bilateral peace order. Therefore, much attention has been focused on the concrete and clear agreement on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula through the subsequent talks. In the end, the basic agreement on ‘complete denuclearization’ was reached at the North Korea-US summit but it seems that it will take a long time to reach that stage. Therefore, Korea's role in the denuclearization and peace process on the Korean Peninsula is becoming increasingly important. In this article, I will examine the meanings of the inter-Korean summit and the North Korea-US summit, and reflect the future challenges.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.