中国の朝鮮半島政策-ある中国人学者の視角-

朝鮮半島の国際政治

抄録

This essay reviews the Chinese foreign policy toward the Korean peninsula in the 80s from the view point of a Chinese scholar.
The situation around the Korean Peninsula now is at an important and historical turning point. After 80s, the relationship between North and South Korea is to improve to some extent. In the dialogues newly started in the 80s, the North and South leaders have tried to take their advantage over the opponent, and have changed their policies toward each other. These policy changes are appreciated as the efforts to relieve the tension in the Korean Peninsula. These changes were caused by two factors. The one is international situations, which are detente between the U. S. and Soviet, the normalization of Sino-Soviet relation, the good relations maintained between the U. S. -China and Japan-China, and the probability of improvement of the Japan-Soviet relation, etc. These are international factors. The other is internal affairs, which are the equality of South and North Korean gross national powers, economic developments both in the North and South, and internal problems still to be solved in both, etc. These are internal factors that would promote an improvement of the political situation around the Korean Peninsula. These changes will likely affect the situation around the Korean Peninsula.
The situation around the Korean Peninsula has a dual character. On the one hand, peace and stability are being maintained in the Peninsula, and on the other, there are many factors to instabilize the situation. At the same time, it is a present trend that the Korean problems have become those of Koreanization, whereas adjacent big countries still keep strong influences upon the Korean problem. This dual character will eventually affect the future situations around the Korean Peninsula.
The basic stance of China's foreign policy toward the Korean Peninsula is to maintain the peaceful and stable situation of this area, and this will be the benefits to the North and South Korea and to China as well. China is one of the powerful agents to promote to improve the situation and to maintain peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula. And China will surely pay her efforts for the purpose to the extent of not interfaring the Korean internal affairs.