Facilitating
Korean Reconciliation through Constitutional Law
Damian P.
Horigan
This
article looks at the so-called Korean Problem or Korean Question from a fresh
perspective. Instead of advocating a quick yet costly reunification of Korea
along German lines or any specific type of federation, confederation, or
commonwealth, a new approach to both Korean reconciliation and possible
reunification based on negotiated constitutional change, the symbolic power of
constitutions, and the Habermasian concept of constitutional patriotism is
proposed. Specifically, the example of the Northern Ireland peace process is
presented as an alternative legal model that can be creatively applied to
conditions on the Korean Peninsula.
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