북한의 국가 발전 목표와 대일정책: 김정일, 김정은시대를 중심으로

Abstract

North Korea's national development goal is to become Kangsong Taeguk (Kangsong state, a strong and prosperous nation) which is composed of political ideology powers, military powers and economic powers. During the Kim Jong-il era, North Korea declared that political ideology powers and great military powers have already been achieved and has called the construction of economic powers as the immediate task. The Kim Jong-un regime has also appealed to the construction of economic powers. For the sake of stability and strength of the political system, there is a need for great economic powe. North Korea’s internal capital has been depleted by the long economic crisis. Therefore, the external capital is urgent in order to realize economic powers. North Korea has been trying to acquire large-scale external funds through the normalization of diplomatic relations with Japan. The Kim Jong Il regime held a North Korea-Japan summit meeting in September 2002 and the Kim Jong-un regime tried to normalize relations with Japan through '5.28 agreement' in 2014. However, these attempts ended in failure by the abduction issue. It’s evident that the attempts made by North Korea in order to normalize diplomatic relations with Japan were in a close relationship with the nation’s development goal.