1980년 5월 광주와 김대중 구명운동, 그리고 자유공조 -북미주 개신교 네트워크의 활동을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study started with a question about the historical significance of “A Movement to save Kim Dae-jung” of the Protestant Christian network in the Americas in the May 1980 Gwangju Uprising. In May 1980, “A movement to save Kim Dae-jung” of the American Protestant Network was unfolded as a continuation of the anti-Yushin movement in the 1970s, and as a movement ideology combined with Protestant human rights ideology, liberal democracy, and political liberalization slogan. Under the Cold War, the expansion of human freedom, the highest ethical realization value of the Protestant ecumenical camp, is inevitably realized through cooperation in the free world. Immediately after the Gwangju Uprising, the Protestant Network in America announced the historical direction of freedom and democracy” by informing the world of domestic news and demanding the lifting of martial law and political democratization. At the same time, however, the Kim Dae-jung life-saving movement, which appealed to the US administration and the US Congress, and public opinion in the free world, served as the inducing factor for the Chun Doo-Hwan’s New Military political settlement. The concern that the U.S. liability issue will spread to anti-American sentiment behind Gwangju Massacre among Koreans is typical. The direction of ‘freedom and democracy' of the Protestant democratic group combined with the line of ‘liberal democracy ideology and anti-Yushin' of the opposition politician Kim Dae-jung was unfolded in the Asian Mission Solidarity of the American Church and the Free World of the Cold War, which could not raise the essential question of divided Korea. That was the limiting factor of the movement to save Kim Dae-jung of the Protestant Church in North-America.