조선노동당 제8차 대회를 통해 본 북한의 대외정책 - 대외관계 사업총화보고를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This thesis analyzed and evaluated the field of external relations at the 8th Party Congress and predicted the future foreign policy of North Korea. In other words, the purpose of this study is to derive implications through the analysis of the 8th Party Congress’s business summary report, and to forecast the policy toward the U.S. including denuclearization negotiations, and the overall foreign policy centered on China and Russia. The core stance and line of foreign policy that North Ko￾rea put forward through the 8th Party Congress is the prin￾ciple of ‘strong vs strong, good vs good’ and ‘expansion and development of external relations’. It declared that the United States would be regarded as ‘the main enemy’ and approached with the principle of ‘strong vs strong, good vs good’. In addition, It insisted on the ‘withdrawal of policy against North Korea’, as a prerequisite for establishing new North Korea-U.S. relations, and implied that it would con￾tinue to augment nuclear armed forces until the U.S. with￾drew it. At the same time, it established ‘full expansion and development of foreign relations’ as the basic route for for￾eign policy, which can be seen as an intention to confront the U.S. nuclear threat by strengthening solidarity with China and Russia. In other words, in a situation where the uncer￾tainty of the internal and external situation has increased, the U.S. overcomes this with ‘self-rehabilitation’, and based on ‘strengthening of strategic position’ through close contact with China and Russia, ‘high-tech weapon development’ and ‘reinforcement of nuclear armed forces’, etc. According to the ‘toughness and moderateness strategy’, a customized re￾sponse was foreshadowed. This study is meaningful in that it provides clues for im￾proving inter-Korean and North Korea-U.S. relations through the analysis of the foreign policy of North Korea’s 8th Party Congress in the situation of the Korean Peninsula where the deadlock is prolonged.