Division System in Crisis by Nak-chung Paik -백낙청 교수의 '흔들리는 분단체제

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Division System in Crisis
by Nak-chung Paik (Author), Kim Myung-hwan (Translator), Sol June-Kyu (Translator), Song Seung-chul (Translator), Young-joo Ryu (Translator), & 1 more
October 2011
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$34.95, £29.00

SERIESSeoul-California Series in Korean Studies

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Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780520289888
Trim Size: 6 x 9

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Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea’s most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is perhaps best known as an eloquent cultural and political critic. This volume represents the first book-length collection of his writings in English. Paik’s distinctive theme is the notion of a “division system” on the Korean peninsula, the peculiar geopolitical and cultural logic by which one nation continues to be divided into two states, South and North. Identifying a single structure encompassing both Koreas and placing it within the framework of the contemporary world-system, Paik shows how this reality has insinuated itself into virtually every corner of modern Korean life.

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Provocative thought: For the two Koreas, perhaps we should revise the "special relations" in the 1991 Inter-Korean Basic Agreement and study India/Pakistan instead of Germany, Vietnam or Yemen.

현정부의 한반도 평화정책, 남북공존, 종전선언 추진 등은 백낙청 교수의 '흔들리는 분단체제' (창비: 1998)에 나오는 한국의 남북연합 내지 북한의 낮은단계 연방제 수준의 1차적 통일이라는 개념에 모두 고스라니 담겨있는 내용이다. 

80년대 학생운동을 했고 지금 청와대나 주요정관직을 하시는 분들은 분명 모두 읽었고 존경하고 있을 책이다. 외신은 주로 한미관계 재조명, 주한미군 철수를 제안하는 문정인 교수가 현정부 대북정책의 사상적 기반이 된 것으로 알고 주목하지만, 내가 보기에 현정부의 대북관은 백낙청 교수가 훨씬 더 많은 영향을 준 것으로 보인다. 외신에서 백 교수님을 인터뷰한 것은 좀처럼 찾을 수 없지만, 다행히 2011년 '흔들리는 분단체제'를 UCLA에서 영어로 번역해 놓은게 있어 공유.

If you want to know where the current Moon Jae In government's peaceful coexistence approach to North Korea is from, read Paik Nak-Chong's 'division system in crisis', which proposes a system of loose union (or a low level of federation 낮은단계 연방제 in North Korean terms) for the two Koreas.

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