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The Peace Regime and the Pacific Resolution of Disputes in the Korean Peninsula

After the Chon-An Patrol accident which was occurred in march 2010, the relationship between the North and South Koreas has turned into a chicken game. Recently, the North and South Koreas try to find out the exit of bad situation, but basically continue to stand firm against each other.

The actions thereafter show us the importance of the peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. This thesis aims at reviewing the designs on making peace regime in the Korean Peninsula.

There were three kinds of civilian drafts about the peace agreement on the Korean Peninsula. Many issues have been debated such as how to declare the end of the Korean War, who to be the signers of the agreement, how to attain the denuclearization of the Korea, and how to manage disputes and guarantee the peace in the Korean Peninsula under the new agreement, etc. But those drafts have proved to have clear limits to solve the Chon-An Patrol accident.

Besides all those three drafts, we need to review the Inter-Korean Basic Agreement(1992) which deals main issues about making peace regime in the Korean Peninsula. The Agreement consists of three parts, reconciliation, non-aggression, mutual exchange and cooperation. Especially the contents on the settlement of disputes between the North and South Koreas are more concrete than the civilian drafts for the peace regime of the Korean Peninsula.

We need to make a more practical and specific design for a pacific resolution of the disputes between the North and South Koreas. The democratization of diplomacy sector for security and peace is indispensible to settle the disputes and stop the chicken game.

Above all, the peace plan should be oriented toward reunion of the Korean Peninsula, considering that the related parties of the Korean Peninsula, that is South Korea, North Korea, and the United States, have different type of goals over peace in the Korean Peninsula: The North Korea wants to get guarantee for their regime; the South to eliminate the nuclear weapons of the North Korea; and the US to control the Korean Peninsula.

Key Words: peace regime, peace agreement, Inter-Korean Basic Agreement, pacific resolution of disputes