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Volume 7 No. 1
The Role of Economic and Social Commission for Asia (Escap) and the protection of Human Rights
(Dimitris Liakopoulos)
<Abstract>
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia (Escap) was
founded in 1947. During the years, ESCAP's activities are more
concentrated on spreading the growth momentum fronts from the more
dynamic countries to the rest of the region. In this way ESCAP as a
regional organization has called under the mandates of the United
Nations to participate and to contribute especially in the field of the
protection of human rights in the region of Asia Pacific region.
The Present State of the South and North Korean Economic Cooperation and Tasks for its Activation
(Il-whan Oh)
<Abstract>
Both sides of South and North Korean authorities were able to set up a
momentum to transform their relation from a hostile relation to a
cooperative relation based on concord and peace through the South and
North Korean Summit Talk, transition to brand-new cooperative relation
targets the establishment of institutional device for concerted
development of the two Koreas through reconstruction of the North Korean
economy, increasing the living conditions level of North Korean people,
mutually complementary economic growth, that is formation of the
national unitary economic community.
We
have to consider that the heterogeneity between the two Koreas'
political and economic systems is so severe, for establishing the
national unitary economic community formation strategy. Therefore, a
functionalistic method, that is a gradual and stepwise way, should be
adapted, in order to keep stimulating North Korea to a minimum level.
Then the effects will spread to political and military sectors, and
we'll be able to achieve the economic integration, overcoming the revere
ideological and systematic gap between the South and North. In this
context, it may be desirable to establish an overall, concrete execution
plan for reaching formation of a national unitary economic community,
and carry it out step by step. Hence, it will be very important to exert
all efforts to find more effective ways for increase of mutual
dependence of South and North Korean economies, and to concretize them,
and to carry them into
The
purpose of this study is to examine the current situation of major
projects of South and North Korean economic cooperation since the Joint
Declaration of South and North Korean Summit Talk in 2000 and to suggest
some policy implications for more effective execution of the economic
cooperation. The major projects are the Gyeongeui Railway Line
Connection Project, Donghae Railway Line Connection Project, Gesung
Industrial Complex construction project and Mt. Kumgang Tour Development
Project, which were included in the items that were agreed by both
sides' authorities of the South and North in the second meeting of the
South and North Korean Economic Cooperation Execution Committee, held in
August 2002.
A Note for Practicing the Social Welfare in South Korea: Based upon a Psychoanalytic Self-Awareness of Populist Culture
(Manwoo Lee)
<Abstract>
This paper deals with the psychoanalytic contribution to practicing the
social welfare in the direction of a self-awareness of Korean populism
and its cultural pathologies. Populist drive undermines the tolerant
political process of informative communication and common purpose in
populism may be an idealization and its conviction may rest on
narcissism, supported by projective communication. Populist welfare
policy suggests a common purpose that binds individuals into political
groups with a collective conviction, based on the signifier of master,
the People. But psychoanalytic self-reflexive reason mitigates these
destructive tendencies, The rigorously reflexive nature of
psychoanalysis may bring it into social conflict with some partisan
positions taken by political groups from which its populist drive has
been drawn, Psychoanalysis has a unique contribution to promote our
understanding of the relation between self-reflexive reason and populist
drive in making the welfare policy, facing with the cultural matrix of
starting from mental motives as a source of creativity.
Review
on the Autonomy of Leadership of North Korea: Focusing on the Period of
Establishing Socialist Economy after the Korean War
(Mi-kyung Lee)
<Abstract>
This thesis tried to examine when and how the leadership of North Korea
achieved autonomy. Autonomy means an ability to make its goal and
achieve the goal overcoming substantial or potential opposition. Thus,
the autonomy of the leadership of North Korea means to maximize the
power and status of leader internally, and to sustain relative autonomy
and independence externally. It is shown in suggesting independence line
that asserting its own way in building socialist economy overcoming
both internal and external opposition in post war perod. The independent
line of North Korea is resistant because it contains equality between
nations, independence, and non-intervention in domestic affairs etc.
Also it show its self-confidence to establish equal relations in foreign
relationships. Thus the North Korean leader's autonomy was the result
of their ideological element such as independence and self-reliance came
from its unique historical experience of North Korea that had sustained
its regime under continuous influence of foreign powers. And it was
derived from the North Korean leader's self-confidence caused by the
maintenance of stable regime owing to the remarkable economic growth
under the leadership of Kim Il-Sung centered on the singly leadership
system since the postwar.
A Road to Democratic Consolidation: the Case of South Africa
(Sungsoo Kim)
<Abstract>
The stability and prosperity of future of South Africa would be
depended on the fact that all signs of racial capitalism have to be
replaced by a democratic and progressive socialist order in order to
prevent a major class battle. The ideology of true Marxism would offer a
credible alternative to the structural inequities and ravages of
capitalism along with limited the power of the executive but
legislature. I, not a socialist, believes that if entities of the
liberation movement cannot fight for radical alternative to the
historical injustices and ravages of capitalism and find a formula for
closing the gap between the haves and have nots, then the new South
Africa is going for a conflict of unprecedented proportions. In short,
the combination of Marxism as a weapon of theory and organized black
labor as a political force can bring down racial exploited capitalist
system and achieve the just and ideal society envisaged by true Marxism.
South Korea's Role in UN Peacekeeping Operations and its Cooperation with Japan
(Young-Dahl OH)
<Abstract>
This paper examine the possibility of security cooperation between
South Korea and Japan within the framework of UN Peacekeeping
Operations(PKOs). UN PKOs represent quintessential activities of the UN
for the maintenance of international peace and security in the
international community. As the role of South Korea in the field of UN
PKOs is a success story, so Japan has been making a great contribution
to the UN PKOs. Nevertheless, Japan's posture toward UN PKOs is unique
in that it is exceedingly reluctant in sending out combat units whereas
it provides a large amount of human and financial resources for the PKOs
due to its Peace Constitution and related laws. This situation might be
utilized as an opportunity to consider a security cooperation between
South Korea and Japan within UN PKOs as the case of East Timor
illustrates.
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