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A Study on Recent Changes on the Korean Peninsula and Peace Regime: Based on Gender Analysis of International Relations

  • Journal of Human Rights Studies
  • Abbr : JHRS
  • 2018, 1(2), pp.31-63
  • DOI : 10.22976/JHRS.2018.1.2.31
  • Publisher : Korean Association of Human Rights Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law > Law of Special Parts > Human Rights / International Human Rights Law
  • Received : November 12, 2018
  • Accepted : December 11, 2018
  • Published : December 31, 2018

Chang Heekyoung 1

1베를린 자유대학

ABSTRACT

Recently expectations are rising high regarding the possibility of ending the armistice regime with North Korea, and the establishment of peace as a consequence of three summits between North and South Korea, and one summit between North Korea and the US. Based on a feminist IR perspective this article explores the effects of these recent changes on the Korean peninsula including the promotion of peace and human rights. Drawing on gender analysis the feminist IR perspective represents an epistemological turn that proposes a new conceptual approach to security and peace. This approach criticizes the state concept that pursues state security against an external threat based on the idea of the Hobbesian anarchy reflecting masculinity only. Alternatively, the feminist IR perspective asserts that it is necessary to overcome internal-external state dichotomy for guaranteeing security, and remove the causes of structural violence that suppress personal security within the state. In that sense, this alternative perspective extends the concept of security toward ‘human security’, which problematizes human insecurity due to structural violence. Against this backdrop, this article addresses issues occurring between North and South Korea in general, and regarding women’s security issues in particular arguing that structural violence stems from the effects of the division on the Korean peninsula. The analysis examines the meaning of recent changes in 2018 regarding peace and human rights, and based on a feminist IR perspective reflects about what has to be done to achieve a proper peace regime by providing insights on how to overcome division and induce co-existential peace. The key argument draws on the concept of identity, and highlights the problem of involved actors’ perception of ego and alter. Consequently, for instituting a peace regime it is necessary that North and South Korea do not objectify each other but must perceive each other in co-existence, and cooperate for jointly removing the source of the structural violence. In this way, the feminist IR perspective provides a meaningful approach that enables to recognize the problem of human security due to structural violence, while particularly emphasizing women’s security.

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