Bezpečnostní vztahy mezi Severní a Jižní Koreou po roce 2015

This bachelor thesis deals with the question of security and tendency towards peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula, its starting points, its position within the policies of both Koreas and its current state and possible further development. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the current security situation between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, together with the goals of the inter-Korean relations that the two states put in the future and with their limits, through historical analysis of the relations between the two Korean states and comparison of their powers. The first part of the thesis deals with the factors that shaped the current position of both Koreas. Above all, the geopolitical situation on the Korean Peninsula after the Korean War and the so-called Sunshine policy by which South Korea has launched its reconciliation efforts. The aim of the second part is to compare how both states are standing up to each other and the world within the main demographic and economic indicators, especially in the military field. The last chapter deals with the South Korean and global efforts to denuclearize the DPRK, which was mainly contributed to by the three inter-Korean summits in 2018. Finally, the thesis points out the goals of further inter-Korean relations direction and the problems that both states will most likely have to face.