중국의 對남북한 인식과 기조에 관한 연구

Abstract

It is very important issue to find an answer to questions as to what is China's intention to repeat push and pull game between two parties of the Korean peninsular and what is strategic elements that made China keep alliance with North Korea and partnership with South Korea, respectively. With these concerns in mind, this study aims to analyze release of the Chinese government and literatures on China's policies and to compare China's perception of South and North Korea presented in major medias in China,Chinese Diplomacy White Paper and Defense White Paper. Findings show that China's strategic thinking and perception toward the Korean peninsular go as follows. First, China's strategic thinking and perception toward the Korean peninsular is not fixed but has continuously changed. Change in external and internal environment surrounding China and Chinese leaders were conductive to this change, and especially two elements were decisive in this change. Second, if this state of affairs is considered,China is likely to consider national interests first rather than ideological factors in seeking to adjusting China's strategic thinking of the future and China's perception toward South and North Korea. However, China will do this in a long term with the aim of either 'balancing' or 'pulling' purpose rather than in a short term integrated way.