전두환 정부의 국방정책에 관한 연구

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the national defense policy during the Chun Doo-hwan administration in the 1980s. In particular, it deals with the decision-making process with significant elements to affect the policy. One of the main characteristics of the Chun administration's national defense policy was the ally-centered character. The Chun administration focused on the ally, the United States of America, to promote the regime legitimacy with support from the US. In the early 1980s, the end of the detent period causes other conflicts between the US and the Soviets. America needed to strengthen its relationships with its allies in Northeast Asia, South Korea, and Japan in such a situation. In addition, the Chun administration's national defense policy contains individual beliefs. Then-President Chun believed that importing cutting-edge weapons from America has more effective ways than self-development in Korea to narrow the military gap between North and South Korea. Such factors worked in complicated ways to lead the national defense policy of the Chun administration to turn to the ally-centered one.