Carter Administration’s Human Rights towards South Korea: Reinterpretation of 1979 Summit
- 주제(키워드) The Carter administration , Park Jung-hee government , human rights , withdrawal of the USFK , democracy
- 주제(기타) 북한
- 설명문(URI) https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002780234
- 등재 KCI등재
- 발행기관 이화여자대학교 통일학연구원
- 발행년도 2021
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000184071
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.31780/jpu.2021.11.4.31
초록/요약
Compared to the previous administration, the Carter administration has advocated mor-al diplomacy in the form of human rights policy. However, most of the literature stud-ied during the Carter year's relations with South Korea raises the question that the ad-ministration did not apply its moral principle to South Korea. From this perspective, Carter's visit to South Korea in the summer of 1979 is another example to emphasize the U.S. security and economic interests, not promoting human rights for South Korea. This research has made a counterargument that the Carter administration did imple-ment its human rights policy and reinterpreted the visit of 1979 as an apex of its moral diplomacy. By presenting the human rights issue secretly, and because the Carter ad-ministration considered its relationship with Korea as an ally and the repercussions of withdrawing U.S. forces from South Korea, this fact was not well known to the public.
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