김정은 시기 북한의 평화 담론 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze and infer the objective and intention of North Korea claiming ‘peace’ in Kim Jong un’s era so as to predict their future actions. As a result of the analysis, ▲North Korea claimed the main cause of unsettled peace in the Korean Peninsula to be on U.S. ▲they blamed South Korea on the joint exercise with U.S. while they asserted ‘uriminzokkiri’ continuously ▲they empathized the international support on their positions to the unification, peace, and prosperity so as to secure the justification of their peace discourse. This study confirmed that North Korea maintained the peace discourse continuously regardless of inter-Korean relations whether it was in the middle of confrontation or peaceful mood. North Korea utilized the peace discourse consistently regardless of inter-Korean relations, however, they had seldom utilized the discourse since 2019. It is prospected that North Korea prefers to the continued confrontation situation at present rather than trying to change the political situation in the peninsula as well as the relationship between the two and the present confrontation situation might be prolonged for a long time.