• Title/Summary/Keyword: 서해평화협력특별지대

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The Political Environment and the President's Influence for Policy toward North Korea: Focusing on the process of 'Special Zone of Peace and Cooperation in the West Sea' policy making (대북정책 결정의 정치적 환경과 대통령의 영향력 : '서해평화협력특별지대' 정책결정 과정을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Yoon Young;Choi, Sun
    • Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.31-66
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    • 2018

  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the institutional factors and the political environment in which the influence of the president is limited in South Korea's decision making process of the policy toward North Korea. Although the president has the highest decision-making power over policy toward North Korea as a head of state, the president's influence is not always absolute. Many reasons, such as bureaucratic government through the separation of power, the political environment such as divided government or the remaining term of the president,and the specificity of policy act as factors limiting the president's influence on policy toward North Korea. This study analyzed the dynamics of the decision making process of the 'Special Zone for Peace and Cooperation in the West Sea' which was planned by the agreement between the two Koreas in 2007, and examined the influence of the president, limited by the institutional environment and political conditions in the process.