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An Institutional Approach to Peace and Prosperity: Toward a Korean Fisheries Community

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The divided Koreas are considered an abnormal security hazard for Northeast Asia. They are still at war since the 1950–1953 conflict as the 1953 armistice was never followed by a peace treaty. At the same time, the Korean peninsula has a sensitive and geostrategic role in the region, surrounded by major powers pursuing their respective interests. In such a condition, the status quo has proven resilient for more than 45 years until the 1990s. Change occurred internally with the democratic transition and unification movement in the South and ongoing economic and political difficulties in the North and externally with the end of the Cold War and the euphoria over “the end of history.” These series of events encouraged social and political discussions over the possibility of Korean unification. In September 1991, both the Koreas simultaneously entered the United Nations. In December 1991, they signed “the Agreement on Reconciliation, Non-Aggression, and Exchanges, and Cooperation.”

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Notes

  1. 1.

    President Roh Does Not Want the North to Collapse (2005).

  2. 2.

    Lee Myung-bak (2007); Mary Kissel (2009).

  3. 3.

    Brian J. Barna (1998); Philip Young P. Hong (2008); Hak-Joon Kim (1993); Young-Sun Lee (2001).

  4. 4.

    Hak-Joon Kim, ibid., 48.

  5. 5.

    According to Jonathan Pollack and Chung Min Lee, the gradual approach is heavily reliant on “assumptions of expectations that seem highly optimistic,” because no evidence suggests that Kim Jong-il is capable or inclined to carry out such sweeping reform, and even if he did, there is no guarantee of success. Jonathan D. Pollack and Chung Min Lee (1999).

  6. 6.

    John S. Park (2005).

  7. 7.

    Jae-woo Choo (2005).

  8. 8.

    Michael Schiffer (2009).

  9. 9.

    Karen S. Cook (2007).

  10. 10.

    Leigh Raymond (2006).

  11. 11.

    Toshio Yamagishi, Satoshi Kanazawa, Rie Mashima, and Shigeru Terai (2005).

  12. 12.

    Cook, Hardin and Levi, ibid.

  13. 13.

    Aaron Hoffman (2007).

  14. 14.

    Hoffman, ibid., 308.

  15. 15.

    Park, ibid.

  16. 16.

    Charles L. Pritchard (2007).

  17. 17.

    Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi visited North Korea in 2002 and 2004 to discuss the normalization of diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Pyongyang. The incentive for Koizumi to visit Pyongyang was to negotiate the return home of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea between 1977 and 1983.

  18. 18.

    Pritchard, ibid., 105.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., 107.

  20. 20.

    David Stout (2006).

  21. 21.

    DPRK Foreign Ministry Refutes (2006).

  22. 22.

    Ministry of Unification of South Korea, “Kaesong Gongdan,” http://www.unikorea.go.kr/

  23. 23.

    Kim Youn-Suk (2006).

  24. 24.

    Thomas F. Cargill (2009).

  25. 25.

    Kim Youn-Suk, ibid., 65.

  26. 26.

    Kim Youn-Suk compared North Korea’s status with that of Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With help from international institutions and the European Union, Eastern European states were able to successfully transition to market economies. Contrary to Eastern European states, North Korea has not abolished its Marxist ideology or its planned economy. The KIC is therefore not comparable to this transition as North Korea still suffers from international sanctions and does not have access to loans from international financial institutors such as the World Bank or the IMF.

  27. 27.

    Troy Stangarone (2009).

  28. 28.

    Andrew Salmon (2007).

  29. 29.

    Maritime Peace Zone to Expand Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation (2007).

  30. 30.

    Ibid.

  31. 31.

    Jong-hee Kang et al. (2006).

  32. 32.

    At the nongovernmental level, the initiative role of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) is worthy of note. As part of the assistance program to North Korea’s capacity-building, HSS Korea proposed to create “the Integrated Fisheries Foundation Center” (IFFC) in North Korea. The activity plans include sharing “the German experience with maritime and fisheries cooperation before unification and the course of fishery policy after unification” and continuing assistance to the IFFC “through exchange programmes and training programmes in Germany.” Sun-hee Um, Sung-gul Hong, and Soo-jung Choi (2008).

  33. 33.

    Dae-suk Kang and Chong-ho Nam (2003).

  34. 34.

    Jong-hee Kang et al., ibid., 182

  35. 35.

    The United Nations (2009).

  36. 36.

    Chinese Boats (2009).

  37. 37.

    Illegal Chinese Fishing (2008).

  38. 38.

    John M. Glionna (2008).

  39. 39.

    Sung-kul Hong, Hun-dong Lee, and Hak-bong Jang (2006); Terence Roehrig (2009); Jon M. van Dyke (2003).

  40. 40.

    South Korea Resolute on Sea Border (1999).

  41. 41.

    Korean Navies Exchange Fire (2009).

  42. 42.

    John Pike (2009).

  43. 43.

    van Dyke, ibid., 531.

  44. 44.

    Roehrig, ibid., 17.

  45. 45.

    van Dyke, ibid., 536.

  46. 46.

    Two Koreas Issue Peace Declaration (2007).

  47. 47.

    Salmon, ibid.

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de Bruyn, M., Bae, S. (2011). An Institutional Approach to Peace and Prosperity: Toward a Korean Fisheries Community. In: Seliger, B., Pascha, W. (eds) Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community. The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9657-2_15

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