‘북미정상회담’에 관한 한일 신문 사설 비교 연구 ‒조선일보, 한겨레, 요미우리신문, 아사히신문을 중심으로‒

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate, through the editorials of the major newspapers of the two countries, how the press media of Korea and Japan view their same issue, North Korea–the US Summit Talks. Selected as the research subjects were <The Chosun Ilbo> and <Hankyoreh>, <Yomiuiri Shimbun> and <Ashahi Shimbun> representing the conservative and progressive newspapers of two countries, Korea and Japan. As the research methods, the big data open source software ‘KH Coder’ was utilized. The analytic results revealed that for the report volume of each country, Korean newspapers report more editorials about North Korea-the US Summit Talks, compared to Japanese newspapers, and for the report volume of ideological predisposition, conservative newspapers dealt with more editorials about the summit talks, compared to progressive newspapers. For the report volume of talks period, it was revealed that the 1st summit talk reports more editorials about the summit talks, compared to the 2nd summit talk. It was confirmed that there are differences in report pattern of newspapers of the two countries, Korea and Japan, about North Korea–the US Summit Talks, according to national interests and press media’s ideological predispositions. In the press media of Korea, the agendas set in the editorials were generally similar but the views and solutions for the agendas were clearly different depending on whether the newspaper had conservative and liberal stances. The North Korean nuclear issue was the key agenda for the Summit Talks and such issue expressed the ideological inclinations of the Korean newspapers the most directly. In the research results, the Korean newspapers showed the ideological bias over the denuclearization issue. Meanwhile, Japanese newspapers did not show the ideological bias over the common international agendas such as the denuclearization. However, Japanese newspapers clearly showed the ideological bias over the agendas related to issues in Japan. It is analyzed that the Japanese newspapers did not show the partisanship on the Summit Talks reports clearly because the Japanese press media viewed the Summit Talks in relation to the abduction issues. The analysis results implied on the needs for contemplating about the roles of the international news report and think again about the standpoints of the readers living in the era of internationalization on the international news.