일그러진 조국-검역국가의 병리성과 간첩의 위상학

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the two regimes of the Korean Peninsula made use of the Japanese and Korean residents in Japan (hereinafter referred to as "Zainichi Koreans") in order to form their discursive boundaries after the liberation of Korea by focusing on the spy incidents of the Zainichi Koreans (hereinafter referred to as "spy incidents"). This paper attempts to examine the process in which words such as North Korea, a spy, a Zainichi Korean, and Japan are connected and rearranged through the analysis code of nationalism and anti-communism. This is a research on the process by which the Zainichi Koreans were identified with spies due to the hostile rivalry of the two regimes, and how South Korea externalized Japan and North Korea that it could not help but encounter monopolization during the time of decolonization and the Cold War. It is necessary to consider that the Cold War (anti-communism) is connected with the supreme enemy (North Korea), and also inseparably related to the so-called psychological enemy (Japan). This reminds us of the situation wherein the Zainichi Koreans were differentiated from the Koreans who resided overseas. South Korea and North Korea, during the Cold War, became big quarantine authorities for the prevention of disease transmission in an extensive, and yet secretive, way. The reason why the two regimes devoted themselves to a heightened state of alert and the supervision of migrating people was the fact that the migration control was at the heart of supervision and construction regarding the preventive system for a quarantine state. In South Korea, communism was the most dangerous infectious disease and, in this respect, the National Security Law and the Anti-communist Law functioned as the strongest quarantine act. Furthermore, North Korea was the most important quarantine target for South Korea. However, North Wind (a North Korean Variable) did not only blow directly from the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, but it also infiltrated outside the Korean Peninsula. The most watched country among the outside places of the Korean Peninsula was Japan. This place held an important position of propaganda activity that was carried out by South Korea and North Korea. It was also considered as the contact zone, where it constantly mediated between South Korea and North Korea, and where both parties conglutinated. This geopolitical and symbolic significance of Japan stems from the occurrence of the Cold War worldwide, and the fact that the outside world had been monopolized by the Korean Peninsula situation. Moreover, this new location has been reinforced by a series of spy incidents, which occurred in the Korean society during the 1970s. The spy incidents showed that the Cold War did not come from the distant Siberia and America, but instead, it started out from its own land. The autoimmune disease is the legacy of the Cold War; however, it also has characteristics of an endemic disease. A new immune system was reconstructed through the recode of self and non-self during the liberation period. After the division period, however, the recode of self and non-self was disabled. The establishment of different governments in South Korea and North Korea implied that the sociopolitical immune system of the Korean Peninsula started to collapse. This context reminded us that the nationalization of the people, who were able to come and go to South Korea and North Korea at that time, could not be discussed without mentioning the word 'spies'. For this reason, the topology of a spy should be discussed further with regard to the Cold War system. It is necessary to conduct a study on questions pertaining to the reason why a spy is considered as an essential factor for reorganizing the topography of the Cold War, and the reason why the Zainichi Koreans should be thought of as potential spies. The spy incidents are important in starting a productive discussion and forming a significant context to answer those questions. In other words, this subject analyzes the self-injurious behavior, which appeared in the Korean Peninsula after the division, and this time of deliberation would enlighten us that the division tragedy actually pertains to the scarred faces of the people who were accused of being spies, and not the Korean Peninsula itself.