Rethinking US Policy Towards North Korea
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2011Author
Bateman-Iino, Micah
Cho, Soojin
Church, Kelly
Draluck, Timothy
Edwards, Leslie
Gonda, Celeste
Mathews, Ian
Nakamura, Ai
Shimota, Kevin
Taylor, Hattie
Webb, Alton
Youn, Linda
Yousri, Adam
Zhang, Xiaohan
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Negotiations between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have failed. The United States has engaged the DPRK through a multitude of approaches with some success, though they have all ultimately deteriorated due to policy inconsistency and inability to predict and accommodate the DPRK’s erratic behavior. In the last decade,particularly with the DPRK’s successful development of nuclear weapon capabilities, relations with North Korea have collapsed due to various factors. Many failures can be attributed to US policy inconsistency towards the DPRK, especially during periods of administration change in the United States; these failures, consequently, have been perpetuated by the DPRK’s unpredictable reactions. Returning to negotiations through engaging the DPRK regime directly is increasingly important to national and global security as North Korea continues to proliferate.
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