安倍政権の外交·安保政策と北朝鮮政策: 第1·2·3次内閣を中心に

Abstract

This paper examines the main contents and characteristics of diplomacy and security policies and North Korea policy in the First, Second and Third Cabinets of the Abe Shinzo Administration, which is the longest period of Japanese constitutional history. The first Cabinet, which was established by securing public support from taking firm attitude for the abduction issue, spurred domestic conservatism by expanding and concentrating on the set of issues which are abduction, anti-North sentiment and nationalism. And the second Cabinet presented and implemented “Diplomacy and Security Policy b Force”aimed at checking China’s activities over the Pacific areas from the Indian Ocean. Although they had reached the “Stockholm Agreement”with North Korea, they used the abduction issue as a threat to North Korea. Finally, the third Cabinet insisted that Japan is “the directly concerned party” to the North Korean nuclear and missile issue, strengthening the unity with the United States in the hard-line policy toward North Korea. Moreover, Abe’s speech in September 2017 held at the UN General Assembly, in whichhe claimed himself to be the “guardian of peace” was the representation of the final version of the diplomacy and security policies created throughout the 1st, 2nd and3rd Abe Cabinets, the era that Japan attempted to control North Korea and China by force. For the Abe administration, the North Korea policy was also a mechanism to carry out the “diplomacy and security policy by force”to keep China in check.