김정일 시대 대남 위협인식 분석: ‘로동신문’의 4대 키워드를 중심으로

Abstract

The study selected four keywords, “war”, “provocation”, “invasion of North Korea”, and “conflict”, which symbolize security threats, as keywords for North Korea's security committee on South Korea, and analyzed them as four keywords, focusing on the Rodong Sinmun from 1996 to 2011. As a result of the analysis, the most commonly used “war” was 2,001 times, “provocation” was 562 times, “invasion of North Korea” was 393 times, and “conflict” was 69 times. The most commonly used keyword distribution by year was in the order of conflict in 1997, “war” in 2003, and provocation and North Korean invasion in 2010. In terms of strategic intentions, “war” is used to slander South Korea's South Korea-U.S. joint drills and fear of regime collapse by the United States, and claims the legitimacy of nuclear possession as a self-defense measure to prevent war. “Provocation” is used to correct South Korea's problematic behavior, and the cause of the “Cheonan Ship Attack” and “Yeonpyeong Island shelling provocation” was passed on to South Korea and the United States. “invasion of North Korea” is used in their own advantage, and similar to “provocation”, it is used to shift the responsibility for the engagement to South Korea and the United States. Disputes appear with the emphasis on peaceful resolution of trade disputes and resource issues in countries other than South Korea, and indirectly express the need to resolve problems except for the United States in inter-Korean relations. As a result, North Korea is in a defensive position in U.S.-North Korea relations, shifting the blame for the problem to South Korea and the United States, and insisting on the legitimacy of nuclear development and possession. In addition, it is analyzed that inter-Korean relations should proceed peacefully, but the two Koreas, excluding the United States, are demanding improvement in relations.