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East-West Germany Summit : Role of German Unification Process and Implications to Korea

  • Korea and Global Affairs
  • Abbr : KGA
  • 2020, 4(6), pp.203-244
  • DOI : 10.22718/kga.2020.4.6.008
  • Publisher : Korea Institute of Politics and Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : October 28, 2020
  • Accepted : December 11, 2020
  • Published : December 30, 2020

Kang-nyeong Kim 1

1조화정치연구원

Candidate

ABSTRACT

East and West Germany held a total of seven official summits (and six unofficial summit meetings) from 1970 to 1990, 25 years after their division, until the reunification of Germany. East-West Germany achieved peaceful reunification in 1990 based on continued dialogue, exchanges and cooperation that combines cold reason with warm emotion. In the process of reunification, the East-West German summit still provide many lessons and suggestions regarding the inter-Korean summit, including: ①the promotion of continuous dialogue based on the long-term view of East-West Germany, ②the spirit of dialogue yielding to each other, ③the wisdom of putting aside unreal and sensitive issues and umbrellas, ④the attitude of solving them step by step without haste, ⑤the efforts of West Germany to embrace East Germany and strengthen its unification capabilities in the 30th anniversary of the reunification process. We should take lessons from German reunification and pursue: ①continuous inter-Korean dialogue and exchanges and cooperation, ②peace and unification diplomacy for the Korean Peninsula and strengthen trust with the international community, and ③strengthen Korea's capacity for peaceful unification.

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