해방과 한국전쟁, 3차 대전론의 단층들

Abstract

This article focuses on how the post-colonial Korean established a relationship between the world and themselves during the process of worldwide Cold War orders, targeting a third world war discourse produced in South Korea during the period between the Liberation of Korea and the Korean War. It was unavoidable for the post-colonial Korean to accept the international Cold War orders, but not all of them passively merged with the orders. Rather, the discourse makers in Korea positively appropriated and utilized the new international orders from their own point of view. As the mapping of the Cold War defined the Korean peninsula as a critical location, the temporary Korean population attempted to rearrange it in a geopolitical manner by identifying it as a possible position for a third world war outbreak. The fact that the Korean peninsula had been supposed to be a critical location meant that the Korean came into a close relationship with the development of international Cold War orders. The temporary Korean could convey their requirements to the nations that had initiative in the Cold War by means of a third world war issue because it showed a possible breakdown of the Cold War orders planned by the initiative nations. At that time, a third world war discourse was closely linked with the process by which Korean were reborn as the subject of the Cold War. The period of post-colonialism, formation of the Cold War orders and division of the Korean peninsula eventually led to the Korean War. The intellectuals in South Korea recognized the Korean War as th esubstitute for a third world war, performed to protect the base of democracy. Although the attempt of intellectuals in South Korea to find out the appropriate junction between themselves and the world was finally perverted to a fight for recognition by the USA and other wester ncountries, it can be recognized as the historical pathway they trod in the period between liberation and the Korean War.