| Abstrakt: |
The Moon Jae-in government has promoted diverse cooperative projects with the Northern region, including China, Russia and Eurasia to derive ripple effects in economics and security both the diversification of political diplomacy and the denuclearization of North Korea. The East Asian Railway Community in particular, with a focus on the New Northern Diplomacy, has been proposed as a means to achieve greater effectiveness. Even in the face of many challenges to embody this conception, a variety of international cooperation efforts have been pursued to accomplish co-prosperity with Russia and Eurasian countries. This is part of the plan to complete the Iron Silk Road as an important model for Northeast Asia Multilateral Cooperation, which connects Northeast Asia and Eurasia through the connection of the continental railways with the Trans-Korean Railway (TKR), Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR) and Trans-China Railway (TCR) to achieve the modern version of the Silk Road, which has been one of the ambitious plans since the Kim Dae-jung government. Thus, railway cooperation with Russia is becoming more important to attract the expansion of the domestic market and opening of North Korea, and also to build an everlasting Peace Regime in the Korean Peninsula through the overland route eventually connecting the continent via a TKR-TSR linkage in the future. In this context, the main purpose of this paper is to explore the international cooperation efforts and constraints required for a linkage of the TKR and the TSR by the medium of the inter-Korean railway connection on the basis of the functionalist theory, which is a symbol of peace and economic cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
