Currently, Korea is the only divided nation in the earth, and a key to become united as one country is to solve problem of North Korea. As we are all well aware, we can only be united after we solve the systematical problem of food shortage and human rights of North Korea. And the core issue to solve these problems is by the economic reform and market opening.
Since the 1978 declaration, by Deng Xiaoping, on converting themselves for a reform and opening up of the market, China has selected four Special Economic Zones (SEZs); Guangdong Province, Hainan, Shenzhen, and Fujian Province, as an open-door policy for a foreign transaction and capital flow. And among them, Shenzen in Guangdong Province has been changed dramatically since 1978 as Kim Jong-il described the city as ‘a seachange like a mircale’. The SEZs become a base camp for a reform and opening up of the market by absorbing technique, business, and knowledge worldwide. Through this special region, they acknowledged changes and development of world economy and realized the advantage of learning the western cutting-edge technique. The appearance of these economic zones also played part as an economical laboratory for pre-experimentation before introducing the economical reformation policies to other regions and worked as a key leverage to drive reform and opening up.
Fortunately, it is forming an improvement on relation between the North Korea and the United States based on a recent agreement between the two countries on nuclear problems. As a result, North Korea is released from the list of a state sponsor of terrorism and a hostile country trade law. So the optimistic international environment is building up to make North Korea’s special region policy and international opening of the economy to be realized in the future. However, there are still plenty of tasks to solve to promote North Korea’s special region policy and international opening of the economy successfully. But if we make our achievements as a stepping-stone and try to solve those problems and tasks together step by step, peace and unification of the Korean Peninsula will become real. It is necessary to accurately evaluate the achievement, limit, and a problem of the Sunshine policy in an objective and rational dimension, and need to inherit the achievement and suggest the improvement and overcome the limit and a problem. For North Korea to achieve an economic restoration through the international opening of the economy and establish a strong foundation to realize peacefully developed unification of the Korean Peninsula, it is very important that North Korea’s special region policy should succeed. The North Korea should more actively reform the social system and law to promote the international opening of the economy and special region successfully together with the effort to improve a relation with the United States, and the South Korea should try our best for the ‘Outward Processing in Korean Peninsula-Admission on the North Korea special zone’ to be realized as it is a core issue to activate the North Korea’s special regions.
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