A spring of peace unfolding in 2018 on the Korean Peninsula was short-lived, leaving the Korean Peninsula and inter-Korean relations at a continued impasse. There have been recent discussions on changing world orders involving the US-China strategic competition, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In particular, the importance of emerging security, highlighted amidst the global pandemic, gives rise to the active discussions on changing perceptions of peace, security, and cooperation.
Against this backdrop, this session seeks to find a new paradigm for forward-looking inter-Korean relations to promote peace on the Korean Peninsula and foster coexistence and cooperation between the two Koreas based on the discussions of the shifted perception of recently changing worlds order, peace, security, and cooperation.
The session primarily examines discussion on repercussions caused by the recent global pandemic, changes in the world order, and shifts in the perception of peace, security, and cooperation. Based on this assessment, the session critically evaluates the existing perception of inter-Korean relations and paradigm and discusses how to develop a new paradigm for new inter-Korean relations to foster coexistence and cooperation.