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This paper is about diplomatic processes between ROK and US during Vietnam War period. Especially, serial negotiations on sending ROK troops to Vietnam are the main topic. The feature of this paper is to compare this topic with Thucydides's The History of the Peloponnesian War.
In the part of Melian dialogue, ROK Park Jung Hee administration went to different way to what the people of Melos. Where the people of Melos took a certain way of justice or some right things, Park pursued national and his own interests aggressively rather than some idealism. In the part of hybris-nemesis aspect, Park's administration went to a similar path of hybris ate nemesis, which Athens took through.
There are lots of implications of Thucydides to Korean diplomacy. The most important thing of these is to understand the world as what it is. The logic of power, however, is not the all in understanding the world. Although ethics and justice are not functioned fully in a real world, these have been functioned in long-term history when a state or leader ignore the virtue of them. The lessons from Thucydides are still useful when we design the future status of our nation and its diplomacy.