The Trust-building Process has greatly shaped the direction of the Park Geun-hye administration’s policy towards North Korea. Trust is a new concept in South Korea’s North Korea policy, and the Trustbuilding Process emerged as a new paradigm for policies on North Korea. The current government has diverged from the pathways of the previous governments. Since the end of the Cold War, South Korea’s economic superiority has been utilized as a major policy leverage against the North by means such as deciding the volume of humanitarian aid towards North Korea or economically pressuring the North. However, the Trust-building Process does not confine policy means to either a hard-line or soft-line stance on South Korea´s North Korea policy. As a social capital, trust is an intangible infrastructure between North and South Korea.
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