카터 행정부의 도덕주의 외교와 한국정책: 1979년 카터 대통령 방한의 재해석
Cater Administration's Human Right Policy towards Korea: Reinterpretation of 1979 Summit
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The Carter administration advocated moral diplomacy unlike previous administrations. However, it seems that the Carter administration’s policy for the Republic of Korea did not properly apply the moralistic norms from a global dimension. In accordance with this, the established research on Carter’s foreign policy on South Korea is evaluated as putting realism first and not reflecting moralism. From this perspective, President Carter’s visit to South Korea in the summer of 1979 is also commonly viewed in a negative light in terms of human rights policies. The paper presents the external image of Carter’s foreign diplomacy towards the Republic of Korea and the problems of existing research stemming from this. Unlike its external image, the Carter administration promoted a diplomacy plan towards South Korea by shifting its priority to the importance on human rights. However, by presenting the human rights issue secretly, and because the Carter administration considered its relationship with Korea as an allied country and the repercussions of withdrawing troops, this fact was not well known to the public. In particular, President Carter’s visit to Korea in the summer of 1979 became the opportunity to actively promote his human right policy, which had already secretly been in progress. President Carter utilized holding the summit meeting itself as a means to exert pressure on Korea regarding human rights, and also used military withdrawal policy, when in fact withdrawing the US troops from Korea had already been decided. Furthermore, President Carter presented human rights problems as one of the main topics of the summit meeting, thereby exerting even greater pressure on President Park’s administration. Therefore, Carter’s visit to Korea was not merely a “method to minimize the problems of human rights and to pursue real US interests through military/economic operations between US and Korea,” but was a case of how Carter actively applied his already in motion human rights policy in Korea.
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The Carter administration advocated moral diplomacy unlike previous administrations. However, it seems that the Carter administration’s policy for the Republic of Korea did not properly apply the moralistic norms from a global dimension. In accordance with this, the established research on Carter’s foreign policy on South Korea is evaluated as putting realism first and not reflecting moralism. From this perspective, President Carter’s visit to South Korea in the summer of 1979 is also commonly viewed in a negative light in terms of human rights policies. The paper presents the external image of Carter’s foreign diplomacy towards the Republic of Korea and the problems of existing research stemming from this. Unlike its external image, the Carter administration promoted a diplomacy plan towards South Korea by shifting its priority to the importance on human rights. However, by presenting the human rights issue secretly, and because the Carter administration considered its relationship with Korea as an allied country and the repercussions of withdrawing troops, this fact was not well known to the public. In particular, President Carter’s visit to Korea in the summer of 1979 became the opportunity to actively promote his human right policy, which had already secretly been in progress. President Carter utilized holding the summit meeting itself as a means to exert pressure on Korea regarding human rights, and also used military withdrawal policy, when in fact withdrawing the US troops from Korea had already been decided. Furthermore, President Carter presented human rights problems as one of the main topics of the summit meeting, thereby exerting even greater pressure on President Park’s administration. Therefore, Carter’s visit to Korea was not merely a “method to minimize the problems of human rights and to pursue real US interests through military/economic operations between US and Korea,” but was a case of how Carter actively applied his already in motion human rights policy in Korea.