The Party Factors On The Rok Policies Towards The Dprk

After the Cold War, party politics of south Korea came into a relatively ordereddevelopment phase, and its political parties played an increasingly important role in thestate politics. In the development of South Korea’s political parties after the Cold War,the division between left-wing and right-wing parties has become more and moreobvious, and the policy towards north Korea has been a focus of their disputes. Thanks tothe election mechanism of South Korea, the party who wins the election can affect thewhole policy on north Korea, that is the party plays a decisive role in formulating andimplementing policy on DPRK. The left-wing, led by Democratic Party, insists onmoderate attitudes towards north Korea, and thus proposed the famous “sunshine policy”and “Peace and Prosperity Policy”; while the right-wing, led by Grand National Party,insists on a tough policy towards the north Korea, and thus raised the pragmatism policy.Robert Putnam, an American scholar, proposed the famous “Two-Level Games”theory, which reveals a close relationship between domestic and international politics,especially the important role of domestic politics in international communication.“Win-Sets” is the core concept of this theory, which represents a union of the domestic politicalforces in favor of some foreign policy. Party is the most important factor to influence the“Win-set”. Party campaign can influence the political tendency of voters and thecomposition of the government, which may determine the formation and the scale of“Win-set”. Then the “Win-set” can directly affect the foreign policy’s implementation.Based on Putnam “Two-Level theory”, as well as ideas of Helen Milner, Atlantis,we investigated the role of South Korea political parties in the policy towards DPRK.Through an empirical analysis, we compared the “sunshine policy” by Kim Dae-jungwith the pragmatism policy by Lee Myung-bak and accordingly analyzed the influence ofparties on the “Win-set” towards DPRK. Based on the analysis, we made a conclusionthat the policy towards DPRK proposed by left-wing and right-wing parties becomegenerally consistent. Meanwhile, we also studied the party factors of Park Geun-hye’spolicy towards DPRK and put forward some reasonable proposals to maintain its “Win-Set”.