중국의 6ㆍ25전쟁 개입과 영향 연구 - 중국의 진보적 시각을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Sixty two years have passed since the outbreak of Korean War. The security and regionalorder in NortheastAsia have been very precarious because of the competitions on hegemony, maritime conflicts, and issues about North Korea. The Korean War was a kind of Hot War waged by some global powers that had ideological, confrontational relationships among themselves during the Cold War. The military showdown had brought about millions of casualties, separation of families, and the division of Korea that continues eventoday. The People's Republic of China(PRC), a newborn regime at the time, had intervened in the war to suffer huge damage in human and material resources, and had paid a high price in its domestic affairs, economy, politics, and diplomacy. However, the PRC did not shrink away from its fight with the Western troops led by the United States. Samuel Huntington said, "The Korean War is an example that symbolically shows full-scale clashes between the Chinese and the Western civilization."Due to the insufficiency of data available, it was not easy to find out "Why, How, and For what "China had intervened in the Korean War. But new facts have been revealed as numerous confidential information has been declassified. It is generally accepted that the PRC had intervened in the Korean War because of the threat from the United States of America againstits own national security. However, according to the studies by some liberal Chinese scholars, there are assertions that "The Korean War was a product made by tripartite relations among Pyongyang, Moscow, and Beijing. And the PRC intervened in the war not because of its concerns thatthe United States would invade Chinese territory, but because of its decision to follow the demands of Moscow. "Therefore, itisnecessary to giverenewed attention, from a new perspective, to:the background of PRC's intervention; the domestic and international factors impacting it; its decision-making processes; and the evaluations over its intervention. More attention is called for in this area of study far beyond a logic that the Korean War was and must be the last one in the long war-history on the Korean peninsula.