포스트 코로나 시대 남북관계 추진 방향

Abstract

In the post-Corona era, we would like to examine how changes in the international situation are affecting the Korean Peninsula and draw up ways to develop inter-Korean relations. Conflicts between the U.S. and China over the Corona 19 are intensifying, free trade is declining, and isolationism is spreading. The possibility of cooperation with the U.S. and China should increase as many countries are concerned about the change in the game. On July 10, 2020, North Korea’s First Vice Minister Kim Yo-jung suggested that the U.S.-North Korea negotiations could resume only when the hostile policy toward the North was withdrawn. If the declaration of the end of the war is separated from the peace treaty and confined to a political declaration, the symbolism of improving relations can be maximized without incurring any special burden between the U.S. North Korea has taken preemptive action against the spread of Corona 19 because of poor medical facilities and a lack of medicine, forcing it to focus on prevention rather than treatment. As the North Korean medical system is generally vulnerable to infectious diseases, inter-Korean health and medical cooperation should be urgently needed. The only force that can turn the destructive situation of Pandemics into a starting point for peace and prosperity is us after all. A strategy is needed to transform the Korean government’s national capabilities through K-defense into a bold inter-Korean peace process. North Korea is moving closely across the world to complete the Pyongyang General Hospital on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea. It is also necessary to consider pushing for a project to support Pyongyang General Hospital as a three-way cooperation project between the South, the North and the U.S.