상상의 자주적 통일 민족국가; 북조선, 1948년 체제 - 북조선기행기와 민족주의 문화지식인의 동향을 중심으로

Abstract

For three years after liberation leading to the division accompanying with establishment of two respective governments, nationalism culture intellectuals put the movements of independent unity nation state into action. Just as the movements of independent unity nation state was accomplished at that time, so now it needs to be restored and, by extension, to be examined critically. For this, this thesis aims to take a detailed look at the intellectuals’ vision of independent unity nation state, focusing on two specific respects. First is to figure out how the existence of North Korea was recognized by the cultural and political influential men, who had severe conflicts with each other against or for passing the problems of Korea government on to UN, after the 2nd Joint Soviet-American Commission broke down. North Korea travel essays written in those times didn’t have the purpose of informing North Korea’s overall situation by sticking to the facts themselves. Instead the travel writings contributed to not only rectifying North Korea's biased awareness toward hearsay, propaganda and notion, but also supporting the construction of independent unity nation state and its justification. In this process, the influential men themselves constrained their vision by taking the construction of nation state - which was formed through violent process of fierce class struggle - in the way of nationalism. Nonetheless, their vision has significance as an alternative way against separate government which was established with a single-headed election imposed by foreign power or schemed along it. Second is to examine conditions and logics of manifesto movement developed by the intellectuals who shared the vision about independent unity nation state. At that time, in the situation of a single track conclusion, the intellectual society was separated into two groups; one is in favor of a single track conclusion, and the other is for independent unity nation state. Among two groups, the latter inaugurated a practice movement in order to form independent unity nation state, based on South-North negotiations, withdrawal of the foreign military, and rejection of a single track conclusion. The Importance of this intellectuals' movement should not be confined to barring a single track conclusion or simply supporting South-North negotiations. Instead their movement has to be appreciated as two national consensuses. One is that the possibilities - where separate government may result in national crisis such as Permanent ethnic division, subordination under the foreign power, and outbreak of civil war - should be removed. The other and final is that the foundation of development as independent nation intends to be well established.