햇볕정책의 일관성과 여론 분열에 관한 실증적 연구

Abstract

This paper intends to explore the structure of Korean people’s public opinion concerning the Kim Daejung Government’s Sunshine policy. Major findings of this paper are divided into two ategories as follows: theoretical and substantive. On the perspective of foreign policy theory, Korean people’s foreign policy belief system are composed of their ideological core values, general postures, and specific polity attitudes. Their approval or disapproval of government’s nification policy is closely related to their general foreign policy posture and core values. Substantively Korean people’s public opinion of the Kim Daejung Government’s Sunshine Policy are disintegrated into based upon their position about ideology and generation gaps. However, it is argued, that Korean people’s cleavage across their native region with regard to their support of the Sunshine Policy should be explored the context of power struggle among the political groups. The disharmony between government’s efforts to keep policy coherent and the structure of public opinion is to be approached from the misreading of real public opinion.