연합과 연방: 통일방안의 폐쇄성과 통일과정의 개방성 - 6·15 공동선헌 2항을 중심으로

Abstract

One of the confrontations within the South upon policy towards the North is how to interpret the Article 2 in South-North Joint Declaration. Debates upon this problem up to now have been among extremist views analyzing confederation’ and ‘federation’ only by the perspective of unification formula. On the one hand, the Article 2 has been interpreted as that the North revised its unification formula, on the other hand, as that the South yielded to the North’s unification formula. To interpret the Article 2 on view of unification formula can not make South-North agreement because of substantial difference of confederation and federation, and ideological lock-out of unification formula itself resulted from pecu- liar South-North relationship. This article argues that if we make constructive products, the Article 2 should be interpreted not by the view of ‘unification ormula’ but by the dynamic view of ‘unification process.’ Thus, it can be interpreted as that South-North abandoned rapid and inordinate, institutional unification and they agreed on ‘unification as process’ realizing peaceful co-existence and mutual approval of their regimes. That is, the Article 2 made South- North agree not on unification formula but on the principle of unification process. If dynamics and openness of unification process is considered as above, the difference of confederation and federation may not be important and this problem would be solved without difficulty as actual unification process makes its way.