Vietnam’s Politic of a Divided Nation: From the Reunification to DoiMoi (Renovation) and Its Implication for the Korean Peninsula and North Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

time that Vietnam existed as an independent country. Vietnam had the experience of unifying the North-South region and was the first country to succeed in building a model of economic development based on the open and reform policy of “top-down,” while maintaining strong central control from a single-party communist state. Even though North Korea has remained mired in Cold War isolation while Vietnam’s post-war path led toward integration with the globalized economy, the two communist countries share a history of anti-imperialist struggle and ambivalent relations with their common neighbor, China. This paper aims to examine the process of Vietnam’s Reunification and DoiMoi (Renovation) process and identify its implication for the possibility of reunification in the Korean Peninsula. Vietnam’s reform model has been widely touted as the economic path for an impoverished and isolated North Korea to follow. In February 2019, the United States President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un tried to make progress on the denuclearization of North Korea and the issue of the Korean Peninsula at the Hanoi Summit. The choice of venue naturally draws attention to the “Vietnam model,” which some analysts have expressed an interest in. Therefore, the paper also discusses what North Korea should learn from Vietnam’s lessons of economic renovation.

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