International society is uncertain and risky resulting in conflicts and confrontations among nations. Distrust among nations is getting intense because of their divergent views. For cooperation, trust is called for. Recently many nations reconsider ...
International society is uncertain and risky resulting in conflicts and confrontations among nations. Distrust among nations is getting intense because of their divergent views. For cooperation, trust is called for. Recently many nations reconsider trust as the most important requisite for diplomatic goals and strategies. Trust connotes peace and cooperation in international relations. Trust is necessary for the resolution of discord and the changeover of relations. Trust building is possible in reciprocal exchanges and communications by the consistent signal that one does not intend to undermine the interests of the other party and prefers mutual cooperation.
The complicated situations of current international relations require the alternation of diplomatic structure and method. Therefore, the priority of discourse on international politics must be given to cooperation and trust is prerequisite to cooperation. Trust is made by dialogue and behavior to keep a specific pledge. Recently many nations reconsider trust as the most important requisite for diplomatic goals and strategies. The goal of this study is to build a diplomatic model for‘Global Trust Korea.’ It is necessary to apply different target group trust and criteria for evaluation of trust to military, economic, food or environmental, and public or cultural diplomacy.
First of all, the most significant agendum is the peace in relations of South and North Koreas. Cooperation is prerequisite for the peace, which inevitably requires trust. The most decisive reason in the failure of the consistent management for the trust was North Korea’s nuclear development. One of the main issues in Korean diplomacy is the trust-building process on the Korean Peninsula. Trust must be reciprocal in that it is underpinned by expectation to the other side. Nonetheless, the two Koreas indulge in each own assertion. For the successful trust-building process on the Korean Peninsula, it is required to diminish the gap between policy logic and its practice by introducing a flexible option such as two-track diplomacy. Also, recently the Northeast Asia security environment has become intricate. In the region where the maritime dimension is strongly influential, the sea takes vital r;e to economy and security of each state but then is a factor to expand strategic uncertainty. Trust building is likely to provide the chance to adjust feuds and to raise the reciprocal comprehension.
In the aspect of national defence, cyberspace is getting important to be protected from any threats. However, the elements in cybersecurity are different from those in traditional military security or weapons of mass destruction. behavior of actors in the international community, because major powers have tried to maximize their own interests through curbing the other's superiority in cyberspace. U.S, and China or Russia seek for international institutions to regulate the potential threats from the other. But since those states take advantages of their own favors, the cooperation among them may not be realized fully in the near future. There still remain lots of issues to be solved for the stable international system of cybersecurity. One of them is to balance the relative gains obtained by international cyber norms among major powers.
Next, among the seven threats of human security including food, economic, health, environment, physical threats, the local community, political threats designated by the UNDP, food and health are the most crucial issues in the 21st century. Food security that means the degree of food self-sufficiency is deteriorating every year in Korea. It is very important to review how the Korean governments have made efforts for the national food security in the level of human security internally and externally. Food security must be considered as a key means of diplomatic trust-building for human security with the international community in a near future. the analysis of infectious diseases which has emerged as one of the most important issues of non-traditional health security in the 21st century. Nonetheless, national health security needs to be prior to the global health security since it is not possible to make a global regime on health security without forming national health security.
As the tool of the economic diplomacy, ODA and FDI in the recipient countries should be evaluated on their management and efficiency. Thus, the case studies of Korea’s FDI proves that Korean investors rely on their own enclave economy, which has mostly benefitted international suppliers rather than local companies. The most crucial domestic constraint is the limited existence of locally owned apparel or apparel input firms. It results in the creation of backward linkages locally.
Finally, public diplomacy plays important roles in making foreign publics as well as governments friendly toward a certain nation. Building an amicable or friendly relationship with foreigners is similar to gain trust from them. Certain strategies for making Korea a global trust nation should be studied in the realm of cultural diplomacy, foreign aid or voluntary activities overseas, nation branding, media diplomacy, and etc. Since Korean diplomacy lags far behind the other advanced nations, it is definitely necessary to review our public diplomacy setting a more future-oriented diplomatic goal and planning strategies. In case of cultural diplomacy, higher governmental subsidies to the cultural actors, the better the national image. thus should plan sustainable goals and cultural activities toward foreign nations with durable financial support.