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본 논문의 목적은 그동안의 남북관계를 남한과 북한이 각기 전개한 정책의 맥락에서 살펴보고, 관계개선과 평화정착을 위한 신뢰구축의 방향을 신뢰구축 이론의 관점에서 제시하려는것이다. 이를 위해 먼저 남북관계 개선과 평화 정착을 위한 남한과 북한의 정책의 전개를 분석하였다. 남한의 정책은 냉전 시기와 냉전 이후 시기를 구분하여 분석 평가하였으며, 북한의정책은 지속성의 관점에서 검토 평가하였다. 그리고 남한의 역대정부의 대북정책을 이론적 관점에서 평가한 후, 신뢰이론의 관점에서 남북 간 신뢰구축을 위한 정책 방향을 구체적으로 제안하였다.


It has been over 40 years since North and South Korea started dialogues and contacts. Butinter-Korean relations remain unstable and lack trust necessary to ease and get over confrontationand conflict. The two Koreas have yet to reach a state of peaceful coexistence, not to mention beingable to discuss the unification issue. What is it all about?In order to find ways to build trust between the two Koreas, this article reviews and analyzesboth Korea's stances and policies on inter-Korean relations and peace settlement on the Koreanpeninsula as they have been unfolded since the early 1970s in comparative perspectives. It thenassesses South Korea's policy towards North Korea from a theoretical viewpoint. The fundamentaltenet of South Korea's policy towards North Korea was based upon fuctionalism when it was firstformulated. While the South Korean governments in the 1990s adopted some policy measures basedupon neo-functionalism, it returned to a functional approach under the "Sunshine Policy." Althoughthe South Korean governments with conservative characteristics have taken and implemented eitheran approach emphasizing "principles" or an "integrated" approach, no significant change has beenbrought about in inter-Korean relations. Finally, the author proposes several policy directions for trust-building between North and SouthKorea, by applying some logical arguments to build trust developed by theories in internationalrelations and conflict studies.