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This study raised a necessity to fully understand the current practice of using the terminology on ‘South Korea Policy’ widely used by North Korean academic community and to subsequently establish consensual concepts upon the said terminology. The definition of ‘South Korea Policy’ has never been clear throughout any existing literatures including academic researches and governmental archives, and the use of similar or alternate terminologies has further intensified confusions. Previous studies have employed the expression of ‘South Korea Policy’ for an explanation of the activities by the North Korea. However, in Korea, each researcher had offered diverse definitions on the North Korean activities against the South Korea with ‘Strategies against South Korea,’ ‘Strategic Scheme against South Korea,’ ‘Unification Policy,’ ‘Unification Policy against South Korea’ and ‘South Korea Policy.’ Even with the ‘location’ for the ‘South Korea Policy,’ a variety of claims have been suggested from the views looking into ‘South Korea Policy’ as a tool or means in order to realize the National Strategy and South Korea Strategy to the completely opposite perspective handling the South Korea Policy as an upper concept over the South Korea Strategy. This study, however, defines ‘South Korea Policy’ as a lower concept over the South Korea Strategy based on the hierarchial relationship of “National Objective (Goal) → National Strategy → South Korea Strategy (Revolutionary Strategy against South Korea + Unification Strategy under Communism) → South Korea Policy.” Although North Korea’s South Korea Policy is easily affected by the ‘decision at the level of individual activists’ who participate in policy-makings, it is because various elements at the national level have immeasurable dominance over the lower organizations and their decisionmakings as far as the issues with South Korea are concerned.
