통일연방국가 연구 - 단계적 연방국가와 지역정부 권한배분을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The newly organized governments of North and South Korea (Park,Geun-hye in South, Kim, Jong-un in North, respectively) are trying to improvethe relation between North and South which has been stopped for a while andresume the Six-party Talks from their own footing. Thus, they are tryingconducting under-the-table negotiations between South Korea-USA-Japan,South Korea-China, South Korea-Russia, North Korea-China, NorthKorea-Russia, North Korea-USA, and so on. When the Six-party Talks areheld again, the relation will return to the spirit of 9·19 Joint Statement and2.13 Agreement. This paper suggests making use of the agreement as anopportunity of the unification, specified in the 9·19 Joint statement sayingthat the direct-related countries should compromise peace negotiation aboutthe permanent peace structure in the Korean peninsula in the proper extraforum. Therefore, this study prepares for the nuclear disarmament of North Koreaand the unification of the Korean peninsula, which is the hope of all Koreans,by making good use of the construction of the peace structure in the Koreanpeninsula presented by the statement as the opportunity of the peace,stability, and the peace unification in the Korean peninsula. This paper also searches the unification plan of the North and South Korea for the unificationpreparation. The current plan has a limitation as a unification type forachieving the peaceful unification of coexistence and co-prosperity. For thatreason, this paper proposes the progressive federal unification plan and dealswith the authority distribution between the federal state and the componentstates (local governments). For convenience’ sake, the unification stage isclassified into the three stages, where the government authorization istransferred from the local government to the federal state step by step. If weaim at the unification of coexistence and co-prosperity and the progressiveunification proposed in this paper, we will be able to achieve the peace andstability of the Korean peninsula in the short run, and accomplish theintegration of the nation which has minimum aftermath. This study suggeststhat South Korea has developed in the maritime age, but for now it shouldopen the lost continental period, and develop by the two axes. Going beyondEast Asia, the unified Korea would be the center of Eurasia.