A Study on the New Cold War Era and the Direction of Korean Unification Policy - With a focus on visiting South and North Korea

It is a very chaotic time at home and abroad. On December 3, 2024, the majority party's budget freeze and the subsequent impeachment of members of the State Council resulted in the Minister of Education serving as the presidential deputy prime minister and the creation of a new president-elect in the June 3 elections in 2025. Economically, countries around the world are struggling with the second U.S. President Trump's imposition of high tariffs for their own interests, and the rapid rise of China's economy and military power as the G2 country is an endless war between Ukraine and Russia, which has entered its third year, and is opposed to the U.S. free-spirited Islam, Russia, and China, which oppose the U.S. economic and military dominant regime as a global police force. The war between Hamas and Israel, which began on October 7, 2023, started when Hamas, an Islamic insurgent group, launched a large-scale invasion of Israel without declaring war, the Houthi rebels attacked Israel and the U.S. aircraft carrier, and the war between Ukraine and Russia, which has been in its third year.The conflict between Hindu India and Islamic Pakistan in Kashmir is raising concerns about the risk of nuclear war. Although the ceasefire was reached 72 years ago after the Korean War, which was a Cold War war after World War II, there are many obstacles to achieving peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula, the largest powder keg on the planet.I think the unprecedented civil war and the subsequent impeachment are unsettling situations in which we do not know what difficulties we will face in the course of history. In particular, I think inter-Korean issues and unification are very important on the Korean Peninsula. I think it is the responsibility of this era to respect peace and unification and to build a unified country and a country where the people are happy and prosperous through exchange and communication.It is a new Cold War system that does anything for its own benefit now. How can the unification of the Korean Peninsula be achieved without sacrificing in any way? The unification of Vietnam and Yemen has been greatly sacrificed, and Yemen is still in turmoil. We should take Germany's unification process as a historical lesson and refer to it in our unification policy. I think the Republic of Korea and North Korea should achieve mutual reconciliation, respect exchange, and mutual cooperation and unification and pass it on to our descendants.