1950년대 중립주의의 발흥과 남·북한의 반응

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Examined in this article is how both South and North Koreas perceived and responded to the concept of Neutralism, which emerged all around the globe after the Korean War. Analyzed in particular is rather ‘symmetrical responses’ displayed by both South and North Korean governments, to global events that occurred in the wake of such ideology emerging in the 1950s, such as the Bandung Conference in 1955, Austria’s Neutralization and Unification during the same year, the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, and the drafting of the first version of the Yugoslav Communist Alliance Code in 1958.BR Research shows that both South and North Korean governments responded rather symmetrically toward the Asian and African regions where Neutralism prevailed(as we can see from the Bandung Conference), the Free World(as in the case of Austria), and the Communist realm(as in cases of Hungary and Yugoslavia), during the Cold War of the 1950s. Their such responses varied, depending on whether they could benefit from the effects of supporting neutrality.BR Previous studies of the Cold War History, either from Korean scholars or from scholars abroad, have concentrated on the relations between ‘Central regions,’ or relations between regions which were rather ‘Central’ while the other was mostly categorized ‘Peripheral.’ Attempted in this work conversely is to define and determine the relationship between regions that could both be considered as ‘Peripheries.’ It should be noted that South and North Koreas have together formed one of the last front-lines of the Cold War on the Korean peninsula which has always been perceived as a ‘Peripheral region,’ and that other countries which declared Neutralism in the hope of escaping clutches of the polarizing nature of the Cold War order were also such peripheries.